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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Another Fact Imagination One Thing Treat
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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Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Begin Blame Discourage Else Failure Man Many Somebody Stop Times Try
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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City Discordant Live Thing Unnatural
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
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Abstract Concrete Translate Whitman
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Crown Expedition Floral Lakelet Pool Secluded Some Summer Summit Water
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Discover Either Hand Happiness Head Secret Work
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Bottom Delicacy Extreme Leave Live Mechanism Microspocial Nothing Remarkable
There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Easier Moral Sermon Spark Stone
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
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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Animal Attachment Back Bird Distance Find Home Instinct Remove Strong Treat
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Equal Frost Fruit Goodbye Marriage Run Sap Sun Sweet Winter

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