The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
JOHN BURROUGHSI find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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