Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on age

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, all duties even.

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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

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It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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