Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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 secret of happiness is something to do.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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