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seventy
«Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.»
«At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.»
«Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Death and dying,
Elderly,
Friends,
War
| Keywords:
battlefield, engaged, seventy
«And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.»
«And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, / These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city; / Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; / The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Azariah, Baanah, Bilshan, captivity, genealogies, genealogy, Jerusalem, Jeshua, Judah, Mordecai, nobles, Number Two, people of Israel, province, reckoned, rulers, seventy, therein, The City of God, The King Of, The King of Hearts, The Province, Two thousand
«And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.»
«At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.»
«At the age of ten, he is a child; at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty, he is full of life; at fifty, his foot slips, and at sixty, old age is upon him. At seventy, he loses his intellect, and at eighty, he cannot perform his duties. At ninety, he lies in his bed, and he cannot understand his weakness. After seeking and searching for such a long time, O Nanak, I have seen that the world is just a mansion of smoke.»
«Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
declared, estate, estates, Good Thing, insane, legally, seventies, seventy
