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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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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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