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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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