Nature is full of freaks, and ...

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Our distrust is very expensive.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.