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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

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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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Easier Moral Sermon Spark Stone
The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Different Love May Nature Science Thing Together Two
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Beautiful Emotion Literature Mysterious Religion Sublime
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 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
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
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
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Battle Braten May One Philosophy Summon Till
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Broken Endure Man Mend Miracle Much Only Spirit
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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Always Among Bardic Country English Figure General Old Peot Prophetic Starin Strange
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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After All Begin Bought Main Money Real Sold Thing Value
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
JOHN BURROUGHS

After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Bee Common Death Dispose Nothing Queen Rival Royalty String Strive
All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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All Book Friend Read See Walk Want

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