John Burroughs Quotes

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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…
• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to…
• I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
• The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
• If you think you can do it, you can.
• Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
• The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
• How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
• The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
• Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a…
• A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
• To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
• I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do,…
• Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
• I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
• It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

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