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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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