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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
Waldo Emerson
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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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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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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The uses of travel are occasional, and short but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation and this is a main function of life.
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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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