American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GardeningPlantWeedNeverVirtues
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
WomenAgeBestWomanMeanOldest
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
LifeFlowerLiveTreeMaturitySeed
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
LifeBetterYouMoreExperiment
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
FearPeopleWorldMoreOne Thing
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
BeautifulTravelWorldFindOverUs
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
TrustEndYouReasonYourNo Reason
Power and speed be hands and feet.
PowerFeetSpeedHands
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
GoodCapitalismDoingResultWell
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
BeautyFlowersWorldProudRay
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
PositiveInspireSomeoneKnowWant
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
FriendshipNatureFriendMasterpiece
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