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“while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!”

Long Age Desire Horror Old Age Desire To Live Being Old

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“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.”

Source: Selected essays

“What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.”

Age Young Desire Youth Old Age Abundance

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everyone desires long life, not one old age.”

Long Age Desire Aging Old Age Long Life

Author:Jonathan Swift