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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

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. – Jean Paul

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Beauty
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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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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. – Rowan D. Williams

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. – Thomas Browne

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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