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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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