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A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. the youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. he is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A Third Felicity Of Age Is That

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. the youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. he is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

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Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. youth is full sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; youth is wild, age is tame. age, i do abhor thee; youth, i do adore thee.

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. in practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

God himself - his thoughts, his will, his love, his judgments are men's home. to think his thoughts, to choose his will, to judge his judgments, and thus to know that he is in us, with us, is to be at home. and to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of god, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the father of us all.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; youth is wild, and age is tame.

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. in youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let me live to my sad self hereafter kind, charitable; not live this tormented mind with this tormented mind tormenting yet.

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