Quote by Joseph Addison
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. – Jonathan Swift

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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus

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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. – Sting

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