"Old age" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prayed that we might have grace to live as this man had done from youth to old age, not for himself, but for others, and that we might be followed to our grave by somewhat of "that love wherewith we mourn this day Thy servant departed." Again the same sigh, ...
— Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush • Ian Maclaren
... to whom the doubtful blessing of old age is granted, must come the black time when we shall essay a task which once we could accomplish with ease;—only to find its achievement has passed forever beyond our waning powers. And so, this day, was it with ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... up the word. "Useless! I don't like the suggestion of that word. It hints of death, and old age, and hateful things. It has no ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... out in the first part of this book that sleeplessness was a characteristic of Shakespeare, even in youth; he attributes it to Henry IV. in old age, and to Henry V., a youth at the time, who probably never knew what a sleepless night meant. Shakespeare's alter ego, Valentine, in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," suffers from it, and so do Macbeth and Hamlet, and a dozen ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris
... of the corrupt men was Nimrod.[77] His father Cush had married his mother at an advanced age, and Nimrod, the offspring of this belated union, was particularly dear to him as the son of his old age. He gave him the clothes made of skins with which God had furnished Adam and Eve at the time of their leaving Paradise. Cush himself had gained possession of them through Ham. From Adam and Eve they had descended to Enoch, and from him to Methuselah, ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
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