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The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
Naturalist
Writer
Delaware County
New York
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Scent
Beauty
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Flower
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Genius
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.
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Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.
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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.
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Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.
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The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
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What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
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I still find each day too short.
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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