John Burroughs



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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

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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."

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"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."

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"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 moral."

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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."

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"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think."

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"The secret of happiness is something to do."

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"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."

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"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood."

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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song"

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