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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Alon Alone Being Concern Develop Disinterest Endow Intelligence Own Primarily Safety Seem Self
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Country District Lake Produce See Wordsworth
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
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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After All Begin Bought Main Money Real Sold Thing Value
The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Baby Birth Bloom Either Event Flower Forever Give Key Laboratory Method Secret
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year
The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Do Happiness Secret Something
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Discover Secret Happiness Work
On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Chewink Direct Mark More Ornithologist Principle Same Sparrow Wood
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Confine Music Nature Sound Strong Susceptive Sweet
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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Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Heaven Kingdom Mind Place State
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Build Doubtless Fall Hold Injury Leap Miss One Reason Reckless Squirrels Sustain Tree
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Broken Endure Man Mend Miracle Much Only Spirit
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want

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