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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered."
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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — "Let there be t — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — "Let there be truth between us two forevermore"."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest."
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"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
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"No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too."
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"Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see — not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."
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"Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as glittering generalities, have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever."
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