Fwd: AGING

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Subject: AGING

                            "When I went to the Bar as a very young man,

                             (Said I to myself - said I),

                             I'll work on a new and original plan,

                             (Said I to myself - said I)."

                                                                                    -W.S. Gilbert

                            "I remember my youth and the feeling that will never

                             come back anymore-that feeling that I could last for

                             ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men the

                             deceitful feeling that lures us on to perils, to love, to

                             vain effort - to death; the triumphant conviction of

                             strength the heat of life in the handful of dust, that

                             glow in the heart with every year grows thin.

                             grows cold, grows small, and expires---and expires

                             too soon, to soon---before life itself."

                                                                                 -Joseph Conrad

         

                           "I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the

                            abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope will

                            always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life."

                                                                                 -Edward Gibbon