Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Aging
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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, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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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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Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
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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 years teach much which the days never know.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.
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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
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