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title: "45 Young Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
description: "45 Young quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Young sayings from other authors."
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> [America is a country of young men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/america-is-a-country-of-young-men/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/beauty-is-the-pilot-of-the-young-soul/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Meek young men grow up in libraries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/meek-young-men-grow-up-in-libraries/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/meek-young-men-grow-up-in-colleges-and-believe-it-is-their-duty-to/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/nature-is-full-of-freaks-and-now-puts-an-old-head-on-young-shoulders/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-grizzle-every-day-i-see-no-need-of-it-whilst-we-converse-with-what/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/some-thoughts-always-find-us-young-and-keep-us-so-such-a-thought-is/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-young-men-were-born-with-knives-in-their-brain-a-tendency-to/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-was-high-counsel-that-i-once-heard-given-to-a-young-person-always/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-always-consists-in-the-greatest-part-of-young-and-foolish/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-love-it-because-it-is-self-dependent-self-derived-and-therefore-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/sleep-is-not-death-is-not-who-seem-to-die-live-house-you-were-born-in/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/best-masters-for-the-young-writer-and-speaker-are-the-fault-finding/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-begins-life-helpless-the-babe-is-in-paroxysms-of-fear-the-moment/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/my-son-a-perfect-little-boy-of-five-years-and-three-months-had-ended/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-see-young-men-who-owe-us-a-new-world-so-readily-and-lavishly-they/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-democrat-is-a-young-conservative-the-conservative-is-an-old/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/plants-are-the-young-of-the-world-vessels-of-health-and-vigor-but/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-shut-up-the-young-people-against-their-will-in-a-pew-and-force/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-suffer-whenever-i-see-that-common-sight-of-a-parent-or-senior/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-have-been-told-that-in-some-public-discourses-of-mine-my-reverence/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-my-dealing-with-my-child-my-latin-and-greek-my-accomplishments-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-the-young-mind-every-thing-is-individual-stands-by-itself-by-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/is-it-not-manifest-that-our-academic-institutions-should-have-a-wider/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/but-the-man-and-woman-of-seventy-assume-to-know-all-they-have/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-young-people-are-diseased-with-the-theological-problems-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-poet-a-moody-child-and-wildly-wise-pursued-the-game-with-joyful/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/society-is-an-illusion-to-the-young-citizen-it-lies-before-him-in/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-young-man-reveres-men-of-genius-because-to-speak-truly-they-are/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/not-from-a-vain-or-shallow-thought-his-awful-jove-young-phidias/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-old-yet-i-look-at-wise-men-and-see-that-i-am-very-young-i-look/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/to-help-the-young-soul-to-add-energy-inspire-hope-and-blow-the-coals/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-key-to-the-age-may-be-this-or-that-or-the-other-as-the-young/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-young-man-is-prone-to-be-misled-by-the-suggestions-of-his-own/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-world-is-young-the-former-great-men-call-to-us-affectionately-we/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/when-a-resolute-young-fellow-steps-up-to-the-great-bully-the-world/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/worst-when-this-sensualism-intrudes-into-the-education-of-young-women/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/do-not-fear-to-put-novels-into-the-hands-of-young-people-as-an/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-true-mythology-love-is-an-immortal-child-and-beauty-leads-him/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/meek-young-men-grow-up-in-libraries-believing-it-their-duty-to-accept/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Young

## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson

> [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

> [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/)

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> [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/)

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