People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes
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  1. If you rest, you rust.

  2. We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever...

  3. Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

  4. Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.

  5. My faith has wavered but has saved me.

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