Quote by John Burroughs
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

Other quotes by John Burroughs

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs

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Personality
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A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

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Failure
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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Thinking of You
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca

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Imagination

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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Imagination

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you cant imagine something that has never existed before, its impossible. – Rita Dove

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Imagination

The capacity youre thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. – William Trevor

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Imagination

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Birthday

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen

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Friendship

Back in the 70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was The Bad News Bears, and that was a kids movie, but I dont think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids. – Jack Black

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funny

Encourage and pursue an inclination to reading early in life; it is laying up a treasure for the latter part of it… – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young

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Books