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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. – Jean Paul

Other quotes by Jean Paul

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. – Jean Paul

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sad
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. – Jean Paul

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Age
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. – Jean Paul

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Age
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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I dont even buy green bananas. – Claude Pepper

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Age

I dont need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. – Stephen Fry

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Age

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. – Voltaire

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Age

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. – Roger Zelazny

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Age

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I went onto reality TV as a business decision. – Bethenny Frankel

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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis de Buffon

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Ive looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. – Douglas MacArthur

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