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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.

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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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