To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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