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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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