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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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Attention Develop Direct Figure History Important Literacy Often People Religion
Leap, and the net will appear.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Animal Attachment Back Bird Distance Find Home Instinct Remove Strong Treat
We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
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
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Deceptive Difficult Distant Great Lure Opportunity
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Country District Lake Produce See Wordsworth
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
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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Another Country Essayist Generally Literature Orde People Stand
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Begin Blame Discourage Else Failure Man Many Somebody Stop Times Try
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Curiosity Joy Keen Religion Universe
The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Chewink Direct Mark More Ornithologist Principle Same Sparrow Wood

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