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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

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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
The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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Book During Emerson Establish Fame Gave Lifetime Thinker World Writer
Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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