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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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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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