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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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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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Again Ancestor Apelike Conclusion Descended Draw Feel Man Most People Publish Shock
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Heaven Kingdom Mind Place State
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Begin Blame Discourage Else Failure Man Many Somebody Stop Times Try
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Happy Make Other Really
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Character Delicacy Feminine Influence Masculine Mind Perception Quickness Sympathy
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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Familiar Form Least Lover Middle More Nature Women
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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Among Dance Easily Expedition Gather Haunt Little Place Pond Rock She Star Take
Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Break Doubtless Ease Fall Fly Great Height Make Reason Rudimentary Squirrel
Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Feeling Intensely Most People Repugnant Shock Thought
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
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Animal Bird Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Brad Earlier People Poet Reversion Salad Seer Type
We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
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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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure

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