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" I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. "
John James Audubon
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" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "
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" Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family. "
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" The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision. "
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" I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors. "
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" Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. "
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" I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. "
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" From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. "
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" Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. "
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" As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. "
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" Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? "
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Me
Hope
Think
" A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better. "
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Go
Me
" Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it. "
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Expect
Meet
" The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides. "
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Great
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" The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself. "
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" The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. "
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Bird
Eagle
" I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. "
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Listening
Day
" How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? "
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Book
Little
Books
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Art
Time
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" Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. "
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Duty
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" On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. "
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" All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. "
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Coward
Blood
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Feelings
Against
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" There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures. "
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God
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