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.
JOHN BURROUGHSI am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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