"We don't grow old. When we cease to…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen…
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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Men become old, but they never become good.
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Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together…
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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments…
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