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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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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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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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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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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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