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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Each Find Short Still Think Through Too
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
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Learn New Path Something Took Yesterday
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Better Deed Greatest Intention Small
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
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Bird Buoyancy Ecstatic Frame Heart Idea Intense Large Lung Poet Scale Song Suggestion Symbol Top Vehement
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Accept Alone Fast Go Guide Hold Science Sole Take Theology Verifiable
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
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
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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Age Formative Height Idealistic People Prophet Spirit Spokesman Sunshine Voice Youth
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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Alon Alone Being Concern Develop Disinterest Endow Intelligence Own Primarily Safety Seem Self
I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Early Emerson Find Get Grow Leave Old One Something
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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Architect Crisp Crystal Fire Flake Frost Full Life Sunbean

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