"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Age, Light, Old

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"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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Victor Hugo, French Author

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Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."

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"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion."

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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."

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"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."

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"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."

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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

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