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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.


George Bancroft

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BIBLE Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
BIBLE Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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GARY F EVANS... The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
PROVERB The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
IRISH PROVERB The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
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KATHRYN SMITH because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.
OSCAR WILDE The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
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BARUCH SPINOZA I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Consent breeds respect.
THEE AMAZING GRACE But the gray and the cold are hauntedBy a beauty akin to pain, --By a sense of a something wanted,Th...
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY But the gray and the cold are haunted
By a beauty akin to pain, --
By a sense of a something...
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY The Weight of Glory” is found in a humble heart that bows before a Holy God
JOHN M SHEEHAN Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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HANNELI MUSTAPARTA She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
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OSCAR WILDE The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.
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MARK TWAIN George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.
ERIC BENTLEY I can never consent to being dictated to.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of m...
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PAUL DAVID WASHER As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, li...
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OSCAR WILDE Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
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GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI