When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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