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How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.


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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.



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This page presents the quote "How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.". Author of this quote is John Burroughs. This quote is about aging, age, old,.