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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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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
The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Do Happiness Secret Something
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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Accident Defeat Earth Great Grouch Illness Loss Privation Struggle Suffer Undergone Want
Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Bird Body Carry Ground Hop Most Neck Rite Run Stiff Upon
It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Extra Home Operate Possess Seem Sense Some Time Unerringly
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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All Beautiful Bound Clime Endowed Every Grace Know Master Vagabond
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Feeling Intensely Most People Repugnant Shock Thought
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Heal Nature Order Put Sense Soothed
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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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Beautiful Color Day Grow How Last Leave Light Old
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 geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Exolutionist Geologist Pretty Sure
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Bristling Bud Climate Concept Congenial Grown Human Many Nature Promise Thorn
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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City Discordant Live Thing Unnatural
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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Familiar Form Least Lover Middle More Nature Women
No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Charitably Country Else Give Kindly Look Much Pass Pedestrian Take
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Any Great Make More Poet Portray Suggests Understood Value Whitman
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
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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City Come Effect Generation Sometimes Through Worry
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Deceptive Difficult Distant Great Lure Opportunity

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