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.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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