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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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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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To Be is to live with God.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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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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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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The highest end of government is the culture of men.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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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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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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