Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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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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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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