Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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