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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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