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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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 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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