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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.

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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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