What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture...

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get.

Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Skill to do comes of doing

Skill to do comes of doing

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests...

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Life's such a movie, filmed independent, us against the city.

Life's such a movie, filmed independent, us against the city.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If youre...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If youre...