Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
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We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
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I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
Old age is no place for sissies.
The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
The vaccine is a filthy substance and it is foolish to expect that one kind of filth can be removed by another.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
The cure is, is worse than the disease.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
While there's life, there's hope.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
