Vegetating

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

"Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat."