"Plants are the young of the world, vessels……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground."
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and…
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Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan…
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Don't bemoan your fate. Everybody's not going to be dealt the same hand. Everybody's going to go through tough times.
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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack…
— Wendell Berry
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Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater…
— Jonathan Swift
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I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to…
— Rufus Wainwright
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without…
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When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But…
— Sylvester Stallone
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When you aren't drinking or using drugs or spending lots of money on fancy toys or basking in the glow…
— Glenn Beck
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what…
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