None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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First attributed to Thoreau in A year of sunshine: cheerful extracts for every day in the year? (Kate Sanborn, 1886) and American literature? (Mildred Cabell Watkins, 1894), but there is no known citation to Thoreau's works.Henry David Thoreau
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I outlived the bastards.
Herbert Hoover
If ever I become entirely respectable I shall be quite sure that I have outlived myself.
Eugene V. Debs
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.
Wilhelm Reich
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
Peter F. Drucker
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
George Eliot
Thoreau, Henry David
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