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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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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.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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