Let us be sure that earth
shows no fairer sight than the old man whose worn-out brain and
nerves make it painful, and perhaps impossible, to produce fresh thought
himself: but who can yet welcome smilingly and joyfully the fresh thought of
others; who keeps unwearied his faith in God’s government of the universe, in
God’s continual education of the human race; who draws around him the young and
the sanguine, not merely to check their rashness by his wise cautions, but to
inspirit their sloth by the memories of his first victories; who hands over
without envy or repining, the things of truth to younger runners than himself,
and sits contented by, bidding the new generation God speed along the paths
untrodden by him, but seen afar off in faith.
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