Samuel Johnson Quotes About Old Age
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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.
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Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.
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At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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