Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Age Quotes

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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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated.

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In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

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The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

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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 a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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

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

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I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I liked them before I was President; and I like them during President; and I like them after President.

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Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

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Nature abhors the old.

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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

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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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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

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