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" It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. "
John Burroughs
Easier
Believe
Than
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" Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete. "
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" To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body. "
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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. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science. "
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" Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. 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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" The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. "
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" The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited. "
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" Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. "
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" How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. "
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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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Done
Civilization
" The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule. "
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Power
Big
Animal
" We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment. "
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Tis
Talk
" The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion. "
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Great
Growth
Free
" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "
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Great
Opportunity
" The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge. "
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Knowledge
Love
Mind
" 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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Some
Blessed
Heart
" My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind. "
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My Life
Way
Flower
" Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer. "
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He
Order
Literature
" My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice. "
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Try
Motto
Never
" The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! "
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Song
Flight
Beautiful
" The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen. "
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Authority
She
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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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" Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him. "
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Him
Animal
" Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it. "
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Best
Man
" It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation. "
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Natural
Me
" Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar. "
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Bad
Good
" The secret of happiness is something to do. "
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Secret
Something
" A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground. "
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Landscape
Animal
Will
" We are really here to be happy and to make others happy. "
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Really
Others
Here
" A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. "
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Man
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