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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

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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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Cattle Cured Each Fright Herd Horse Induce Object One Satisfied Smell Sniff Soon
The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Do Happiness Secret Something
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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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
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Chewink Direct Mark More Ornithologist Principle Same Sparrow Wood
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Botany Delight Dull Most People Perennial School Study Taught Young
Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Build Doubtless Fall Hold Injury Leap Miss One Reason Reckless Squirrels Sustain Tree

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