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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle

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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? – Thomas Carlyle

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I cant wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. Wed be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I cant wait. – Cameron Diaz

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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were Daniel must learn not to distract others. And now, thats what I do for a living. – Dan Stevens

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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But Im past that age. – Katharine Hepburn

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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. – J. B. Priestley

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Even though were a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, its beginning to look a lot like Christmas. – Richard Roeper

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I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries. – Darrell Royal

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