The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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.
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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 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.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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