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.
JOHN BURROUGHSTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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