"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
― Herman Melville
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― Herman Melville
More From Herman Melville
- "Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."
- "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
- "Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
More In Art
- "People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."― William Hazlitt
- "I think good art does come from a dark place."― Rick Springfield
- "I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings."― Bruce Springsteen