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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

John Burroughs

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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Body Cheerful Freest Heart Highest Human Little Longest Ride Steed Under
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Bird Cook Corroborative Crow Evidence Incipient Spring
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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Equal Frost Fruit Goodbye Marriage Run Sap Sun Sweet Winter
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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Attention Develop Direct Figure History Important Literacy Often People Religion
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Chalk Clay Country Granite Marble Marl
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Anybody Follow Imitate Inward Look Motto Try Voice
The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Charitably Country Else Give Kindly Look Much Pass Pedestrian Take
The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Bird City Country Drain Food Forest Home Pool Supply
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Each Find Short Still Think Through Too
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Botanist Country Define Distribute Heribell Lady Landscape Locality Market Plant Slipper Talk Tell
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Anger Beast Dog Door Known Often Probably Quick Resent Show Slam

You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

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