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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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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
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
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
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Active Army Campaign Continue Depleted Hazardous Life Like Swarm Rank Recruit
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Battle Braten May One Philosophy Summon Till
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want
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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Cloud Dispel Great Help Lamp Light Maple October Room Window
How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Accept Alone Fast Go Guide Hold Science Sole Take Theology Verifiable
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
I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Country Efficiency Hundred Life Old Person Year
We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Discover Secret Happiness Work
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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August Beautiful Calm Ease Hawk Hen High Leisure Majestic Month Most Movement Noticeable Sail
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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Affection Appeal Art Foster Human Impulse Inquiry Seductive Sentiment Summer Versatile Wooing
Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Caribou Country Ferity Good Mose Mountain Nature Rug Scarcely Sheep Short
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
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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Agile Chipmunk Fly Flyer Ground Helpless Less Proper Sense Squirrel
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Life Not Struggle Warfare
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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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Automobile Come Furried Railroad Telegraph Telephone Wisdom
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Achieve Excite Fire Heaven Look Moon More Rekindle Simplicity Star Wear
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Learn New Path Something Took Yesterday
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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Among Dance Easily Expedition Gather Haunt Little Place Pond Rock She Star Take
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish

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