Quote by Thomas Hardy
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To so

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. – Thomas Hardy

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If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! – Thomas Hardy

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion. – Thomas Hardy

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when its bottled. – Gene Fowler

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Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Ive never worried about age. – Jeanne Moreau

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