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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

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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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Country District Lake Produce See Wordsworth
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Another Country Essayist Generally Literature Orde People Stand
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Aspiration Book Experience Father Knew Much Peculalr Religious Seal
It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Extra Home Operate Possess Seem Sense Some Time Unerringly
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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City Discordant Live Thing Unnatural
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Architect Crisp Crystal Fire Flake Frost Full Life Sunbean
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Agile Chipmunk Fly Flyer Ground Helpless Less Proper Sense Squirrel
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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After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Cattle Cured Each Fright Herd Horse Induce Object One Satisfied Smell Sniff Soon
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
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Confine Music Nature Sound Strong Susceptive Sweet
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Benefit Cicilivzation Country Enjoy Good Perhaps Prevail Safe Test
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Breasted Bred Democratic Distant Family Grossbeak High Native Orchard Rose Starling Ways
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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After Climb Form Ladder Lower Man Pull Some
Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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Agent Animal Course Develop Fear Hunger Intelligence Love Lower Man

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