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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious from thesleep of passions to their rage.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
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