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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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Charitably Country Else Give Kindly Look Much Pass Pedestrian Take
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Baby Birth Bloom Either Event Flower Forever Give Key Laboratory Method Secret
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Learn New Path Something Took Yesterday
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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Abstract Comoextion Concrete Doctrine Each Man Matter Origin People Quality Revolution Sure
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Bird Body Carry Ground Hop Most Neck Rite Run Stiff Upon
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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