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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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