Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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