To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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