“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!” YearsChildrenReasonLightAgePainPastFallDarkPayLaughingHonorProfoundCastsOld AgeFiftyRaysBlindnessAlasTremblingFlickerDeafnessGout Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger
“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.” IfsEarthFallThreeForceAnimalMoonDistanceAssumingSubstanceFiftyFourthOrbitDensity Author:Johannes Kepler
“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.” YearsStatesChristianFallFightingAtheismThousandHundredPositive AtheismFiftyEmpiresDividedRomeDeclineThousand YearsPaganEighteenSectsRoman EmpireBannerTrinityPlatonicHelmExpiredSchismTestimonialPagan GodsDoxology Author:Ruth Hurmence Green
“A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.” MenYearsAgeDiesFallHouseConditionsBuildingFortuneOld AgeThirtyFiftyThirty YearsThirty Years Old Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.” WorldNeedsYearsChildrenEyeRomanceNightFallWishImaginationClearFiveTreeGrewGrew UpHorseBoundsTalesFiftyAutumnHorizonPearlsImpossibilityPalacesDroppingCommonplaceBoyhoodFalling Leaves Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature