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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Better Deed Greatest Intention Small
The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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 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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Active Army Campaign Continue Depleted Hazardous Life Like Swarm Rank Recruit
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
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Again Ancestor Apelike Conclusion Descended Draw Feel Man Most People Publish Shock
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Always Anything Currency Gold Have Love Must One Patience Pay Price Promise Real Sacrifice Service Work Worth
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
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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Abstract Comoextion Concrete Doctrine Each Man Matter Origin People Quality Revolution Sure
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Exolutionist Geologist Pretty Sure

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