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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
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Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
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Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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