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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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Infancy conforms to nobody all conform to it.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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