And wear their brave state out of memory;

from William Shakespeare – Sonnet 15 - When I Consider Every Thing That Grows on Rap Genius

In many other sonnets, the speaker tells the young man to “use” his beauty in order to increase it and give it as a legacy to his children, like how the usurer actually increases his money when it gets used up in loans

These plants aren’t good investors; as soon as they “wear […] out” their peak, there’s nothing left, and no one remembers

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