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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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