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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Each Find Short Still Think Through Too
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Equal Frost Fruit Goodbye Marriage Run Sap Sun Sweet Winter
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Carriage Communication Establish Feel House Love Magnetic Man More Plant Potted Soil Sole Take Root Touch
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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Barn Common Dignify Field Grain Guilty Larceny More Offence Petty Red Squirrel
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Any Great Make More Poet Portray Suggests Understood Value Whitman
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Animal Depend Hime Home Many Outfit Outswim Reason Resourcefulness Some Time Upon
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
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Advice Bad Certain Earth Hardly Man Positively Take Unless
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Abstract Concrete Translate Whitman
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
I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Early Emerson Find Get Grow Leave Old One Something
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Blame Else Fail Man Many Somebody Time
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want

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