| 16 Famous Quotes by John Burroughs
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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.”
Day Quotes |
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“Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times”
Investment Quotes |
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“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”
Museums Quotes |
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“Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.”
Temperament Quotes |
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“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.”
Theology Quotes |
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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.”
Winter Quotes Source: The Snow-Walkers
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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.”
Expectation Quotes Source: Waiting
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“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."”
Accomplishments Quotes |
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“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
Beliefs Quotes |
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“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
Blame Quotes |
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“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
Failure Quotes |
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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.”
God Quotes |
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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.”
Nature Quotes |
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“Without death and decay, how could life go on?”
Necessity Quotes |
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“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
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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.”
Self-sacrifice Quotes |
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John Burroughs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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