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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.

John Burroughs

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
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
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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Act Always Key Layer Own Speak Start Top Truth Voice
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Cloud Dispel Great Help Lamp Light Maple October Room Window
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Bird Cook Corroborative Crow Evidence Incipient Spring
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Affection Appeal Art Foster Human Impulse Inquiry Seductive Sentiment Summer Versatile Wooing
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
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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Book Constant Friend Great Life Most Name Nature Precious Resource Three
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Abstract Concrete Translate Whitman
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Happy Make Other Really
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Breasted Bred Democratic Distant Family Grossbeak High Native Orchard Rose Starling Ways
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Active Business Community Engage Generation Like Time Tree Trunk
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Crave Lover Nature Observe Unadulterated Unsweetened

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.

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