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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau

Old, Enthusiasm, None

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

Love, Good, Death

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
Marshall McLuhan

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

Age, Great, Cannot

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron

Poetry, Two, Three

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Change, Time, Made

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
Guy Finley

Life, Different, Through

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart

Great, Hard, Second

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart

Hard, Second, Interest

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