I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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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.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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 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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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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Blessed 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.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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