What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe good to your work, your word, and your friend.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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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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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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