A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHSBirds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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