One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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