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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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