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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Book During Emerson Establish Fame Gave Lifetime Thinker World Writer
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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Breasted Bred Democratic Distant Family Grossbeak High Native Orchard Rose Starling Ways
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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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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