Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Differences Quotes, Age Quotes

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

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

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

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

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I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

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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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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

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