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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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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. – William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
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The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth

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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. – Madonna Ciccone

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Its not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that its been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. – Cate Blanchett

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Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. – Daniel Defoe

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw Lec

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If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. – Johann Sigurjonsson

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