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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Bottom Delicacy Extreme Leave Live Mechanism Microspocial Nothing Remarkable
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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Familiar Form Least Lover Middle More Nature Women
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Deceptive Difficult Distant Great Lure Opportunity
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Anger Beast Dog Door Known Often Probably Quick Resent Show Slam
The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Bottom Cell Eave Fine Hair Like Microscopical Rootlet Top
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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Apparent Conscious Execution Human Ironical Laugh Pride Self Something Sort Squirrels
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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After Climb Form Ladder Lower Man Pull Some
The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Body Cheerful Freest Heart Highest Human Little Longest Ride Steed Under
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
Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Appliance Benefit Convenience Country Enjoy Freedom High Join Safe Statem Civilization Town
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

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