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Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry DrummondAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: scottish
- Born: August 17, 1851
- Died: March 11, 1897
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Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely, divorced, widowed; children growing away from you, friends dying. You imagine the loss of status, the loss of desire? and desirability. You may go further and consider your own approaching death, which, despite what company you may muster, can only be faced alone. But all this is looking ahead. What you fail to do is look ahead, and then imagine...
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