Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The 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.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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