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Youth Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

57 Youth quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the woods, youth feels like a forever‑lasting child, shedding years like a snake sheds skin. Emerson describes young people dressing in rainbows and chasing heroic images that are really reflections of themselves. He also points out that life moves in short bursts, giving quick energy and sudden weariness.

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.

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It is time to be old To take in sail.

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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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Youth is everywhere in place.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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America is a country of young men.

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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“Then I said, “I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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

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Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That…

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray…

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

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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…

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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…

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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers,…

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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,…

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A third felicity of age is that ithas found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried,…

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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…

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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to…

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Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his…

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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,…

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation…

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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…

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The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the…

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“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided…

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“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.”

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

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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly…

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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,…

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth…

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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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