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COLERIDGE: _Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement._
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Blest hour! it was a luxury--to be!
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 249.
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Solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.
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Dwight L. Moody
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Bill Vaughan
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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too.
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it - and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape That's retirement.
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GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 97.
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O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor, with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat
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William Cowper
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O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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Jim Lehrer
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I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)
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Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
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The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of priva
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
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"Close to retirement?" Kirk "I hadn't planned on it." Picard
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