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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

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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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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 Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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 art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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