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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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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R. W. Emerson
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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Activity is contagious.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
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To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
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Character wants room must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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The surest poison is time.
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