I used to pay dearly and too dearly for every flattery of the world. I would always break off a piece of my heart and give it as payment, until eventually I gave my whole heart to the world and the flatteries began to become boresone to me.
Old men complain to me about their years, saying: “Our heart has grown old under the weight of many years.”
In truth, old men, your heart has not grown old beneath the with of many years, but beneath the weight of many desires.
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St. Nicolai Velemirovic, Prayers By the Lake, XLIV.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them ….
Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 (King James Version)
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