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Quote by Jean Paul
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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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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Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. – Jean Paul

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Pretend to be dumb, thats the only way to reach old age. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. – Pearl S. Buck

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