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, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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