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    To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by read more

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

by Walt Whitman Found in: Age Quotes,
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

by Bennett Cerf Found in: Age Quotes,
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Age Quotes,
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The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

by Agatha Christie Found in: Age Quotes,
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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.

by Bible Found in: Age Quotes, Friends Quotes,
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God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.

God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.

by Arabic Proverb Found in: Age Quotes,
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My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, read more

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),

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Age Quotes,
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.

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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in read more

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not
wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

by Bible Found in: Age Quotes,
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