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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
  We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul....
• Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind
  it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease....
• When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like tha
  we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all our skin layers....
• If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart.
  The spirit should not grow old. James A. Garfield...
• We spend our years as a tale that is told. -- Old Testament -- Psalm xc, 9
• The days of our years are threescore years and te
  and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow...
• Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.
  -- Bishop Berkeley (1684-1753) -- Can Love be controlled by Advice?...
• Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.
  -- Book of Common Prayer -- Baptism of those of Riper Yea...
• May you grow old disgracefully.