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    My days are in the yellow leaf;
    The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
    The worm, the canker, and the grief
    Are mine alone!
    - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

by Knut Hamsun Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

by Leon Trotsky Found in: Age Quotes,
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Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set read more

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

by William James Found in: Age Quotes,
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It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date read more

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.

by Edith Wharton Found in: Age Quotes,
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

by Muriel Spark Found in: Age Quotes,
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The years teach much which the days never knew.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Age Quotes,
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

by Doug Larson Found in: Age Quotes,
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And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his read more

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

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