Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty su

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is only a mans own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone elses meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935

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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. – Margaret Walker

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein

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I want to be age appropriate. I dont want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. – Stevie Nicks

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They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
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