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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.

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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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