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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
- Each Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
- Leap
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leap, and the net will appear.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of happiness is something to do.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020