"Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time."
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"Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity."
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"The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big."
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"Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity."
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"You mellow too much you ripen and rot."
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"Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism."
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"We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity."
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"Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity."
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"Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution."
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"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
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"Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes."
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"To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely."
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"Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully."
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"Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play."
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!"
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make."
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"Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle."
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