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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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Age will not be defied.
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Old age is the verdict of life.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]
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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]
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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?
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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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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 decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.
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