The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Quote by TS Eliot

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In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening...

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another...

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another...

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with...

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with...

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the...

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the...