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Age Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

76 Age quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Age can bring old and new ideas together, like a revolution where the past and future meet. It also promises relief in old age, a chance to let go of discomfort and find peace. Emerson urges you to watch your thoughts, which appear suddenly like a fresh bird on a tree.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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All diseases run into one, old age.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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Nature abhors the old.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific…

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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand…

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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to…

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to…

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and…

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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency…

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put…

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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn…

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have…

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Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts…

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Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh…

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

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We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If…

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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

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We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a…

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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of…

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual…

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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn…

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Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

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The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men…

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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