In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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