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Him 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…
- [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of…
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is…
- Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
- I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality…
- When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on…
- 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…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi