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    The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never read more

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

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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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Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a read more

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!

by Pierre Jean De Beranger Found in: Age Quotes,
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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still read more

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

by Elizabeth Jennings Found in: Age Quotes,
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Age Quotes,
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know read more

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

by Mignon Mclaughlin Found in: Age Quotes,
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Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.

Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.

by James M. Barrie Found in: Age Quotes,
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of read more

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

by Lydia M. Child Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Found in: Age Quotes,
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