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Men Quotes by John Burroughs
- A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
- Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
- There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
- Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
- 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…
- Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
- The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these…
- 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…
- How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us…
- A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has…
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