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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. W

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. – Knut Hamsun

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Poetry
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Knut Hamsun
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There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil ones coffee and fill ones pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. – Knut Hamsun

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alone
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Knut Hamsun
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

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Age
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Knut Hamsun
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Other Quotes from
Letters
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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! – John A. MacDonald

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Letters

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. – Lord Byron

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Letters

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. – Emily Dickinson

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Letters

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely. – Pam Brown

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Letters

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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. – Richard Dawkins

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Science

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson

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motivational

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier. – James Cash Penney

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Trust

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. – William James

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Emotions