All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Age”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.”
“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”
“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.”
“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”
“Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
“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?”
“In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.”
“All diseases run into one, old age.”
“If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.”
“The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.”
“Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.”
“A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.”
“Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.”
“Wherever there is power there is age.”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.”
“Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.”
“Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.”
“The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet”
“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.”
“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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