Retirement Quotes
Retirement does not have a Wikiquote page, so this one borrows from three that do: work, time and age. The result suits a card or a send-off speech better than a close reading. There are lines about labour well done, about the years running on, and about being old that are rueful more often than sentimental.
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Most quoted on retirement:
Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think."
Time went on, relentlessly, and one by one the proud works of man were lost.
We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walk in absence of the sun.
In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass,
Writes our whole history.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
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How few themselves in that just mirror see!