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.
JOHN BURROUGHSBlessed 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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 very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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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