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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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 go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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 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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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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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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