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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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