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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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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Travel 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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Can Do IT Think You
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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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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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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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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