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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Life and Living
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Will and Will Power
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Law and Lawyers
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Ingratitude
Samuel Goldwyn

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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Finance
Robert Graves

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Knowledge
Caryl Haskins

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The worst old age is that of the mind.
Age and Aging
William Hazlitt

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Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Grief
Hebrew Proverb

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Age and Aging
Ernest Hemingway

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Money
Napoleon Hill

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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Fear
Napoleon Hill

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
Time and Time Management
Ralph Hodgson

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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Opportunity
Eric Hoffer

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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Novelty
Eric Hoffer

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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
Soldier
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Disasters
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Truth
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
Books - Reading
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Age and Aging
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
Rules
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Confidence
Homer

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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Gold
Thomas Hood

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun