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A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.

Lyman Abbott

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Lyman Abbott
Age: 86 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 18
Died: 1922
Died: October 22
Author
Theologian
Writer
Roxbury
Boston
Age
Wasted
Happy
Peaceful
Future
Inspiring
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Blessed
Cannot
Elements
Misspent
Must
Youth
Graceful
Present
Retrospect
Either
Manhood

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