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

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

Other quotes by John Burroughs

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. – John Burroughs

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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their “agreement,” as falsity means their disagreement, with “reality.” – William James

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Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check? – Author Unknown

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. – Bertolt Brecht

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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. – Proverb

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Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. – Henri Becquerel

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you… while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

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Necessity never made a good bargain. – Benjamin Franklin

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