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Quote by John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. – Thomas Reid

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. – Leo Strauss

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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. – Wallace Stegner

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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Keep a mid course between two extremes. – Ovid

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My mom was always saying: Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Dont waver. Dont change who you are for anybody. – Miranda Lambert

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I am my own heaven and hell! – J.C.F. von Schiller

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The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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