Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Weed Quotes

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

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To be great is to be misunderstood.

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America is a country of young men.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

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We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

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Men are respectable only as they respect.

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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All the devils respect virtue.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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