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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature itself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. [...] Morning brings back the heroic ages. [...] The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. [...] Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. [...] To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?