What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
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What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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.

He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
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He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.