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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

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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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Broken Endure Man Mend Miracle Much Only Spirit
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
On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Chewink Direct Mark More Ornithologist Principle Same Sparrow Wood
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Nature Other Phase Probably Rock Study
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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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
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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Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
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
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
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
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
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
Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Crown Expedition Floral Lakelet Pool Secluded Some Summer Summit Water
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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Authority Call Compliment Creature Invest Look Mother Queen Say Superb Undount
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Another Fact Imagination One Thing Treat
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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