To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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