"Old age: The estuary that enlarges and..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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“More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!”
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
“We convince by our presence.”
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“Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.”
“Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.”
“It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.”
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“Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.”
“I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.”
“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”