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Quote by William Wordsworth
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than wha

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. – William Wordsworth

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Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. – William Wordsworth

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Future
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I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. – William Wordsworth

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Music
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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. – William Wordsworth

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Defeat
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. – Victor Hugo

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Theres also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense. – John Cusack

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. – Josh Billings

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Age

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and thats the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever. – Ringo Starr

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Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. – Jonathan Sacks

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May thy ball lie in green pastures… and not in still waters. – Author Unknown

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There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. – James Bryce

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden

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