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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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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
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The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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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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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
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