You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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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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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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