Jean Paul Quotes About Age
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Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
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Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.
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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
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The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.
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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
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What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
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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.
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What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
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