Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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