"It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth."

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Source : Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

Cleveland Abbe

#Long Quotes #Youth Quotes #Should Quotes

“It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.”
“Words make love with one another.”
“I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.”
“When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.”
“The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.”
“Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.”
“Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.”

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