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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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.
The Child's Toys and the Old Man's Reasons
Are the Fruits of the Two seasons.
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor;
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
And she grows young as he grows old.
A pilgrim I on earth perplext,
with sinns, with cares and sorrows vext,
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The woman was old and ragged and gray
And bent with the chill of the Winter's day.
Yes, as my swift days near their goal,
'Tis all that I implore--
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