"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
-George MacDonald
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"Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.“
-George MacDonald
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
-George MacDonald
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"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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