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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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