He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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