A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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 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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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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