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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Can Do IT Think You
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Always Anything Currency Gold Have Love Must One Patience Pay Price Promise Real Sacrifice Service Work Worth
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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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