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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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