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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Youth

1803–1882 United States

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Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.

Poems (1847)

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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