Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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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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