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 BURROUGHSTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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