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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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