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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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