QUOTES by John Burroughs
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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."
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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
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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."
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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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"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
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"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."
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"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."
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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
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"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
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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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"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
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"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."
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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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"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."
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"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."
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"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"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 all the forces there are in him."
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"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
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"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
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"It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental."
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"Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it."
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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice"
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"Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times"
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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."
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