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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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Aspiration Flight Free Holiday Human Live Many Poet Realize Song Suggestion
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Can Do IT Think You
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Charitably Country Else Give Kindly Look Much Pass Pedestrian Take
All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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All Book Friend Read See Walk Want
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Again Body Death Fierce Human Insect Many Other Prototype Soul Struggle Together
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Again Ancestor Apelike Conclusion Descended Draw Feel Man Most People Publish Shock
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Aspiration Book Experience Father Knew Much Peculalr Religious Seal
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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