Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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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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