"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
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"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."
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"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
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"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
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"The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried."
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"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away."
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"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
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"My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt."
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
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"The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
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"The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved."
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"You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to."
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"May you live all the days of your life."
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"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be."
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"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
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"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players."
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