Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Aging
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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