It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSMy life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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