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.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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