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11 Quotes for 'John Burroughs' in the Database.
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John Burroughs Quotes
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
Topic: Accomplishments
Source: None
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Topic: Beliefs
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Topic: Blame
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Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
Topic: Expectation
Source: Waiting
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Topic: Failure
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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.
Topic: God
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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.
Topic: Nature
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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
Topic: Necessity
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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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 pay, but the gold of real service.
Topic: Self-sacrifice
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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.
Topic: Winter
Source: The Snow-Walkers
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