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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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