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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.

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Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

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Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

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This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

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how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

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HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

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