Best Quotes by John Burroughs (Top 10)
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things'.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
John Burroughs
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The secret of happiness is something to do
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
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Happiness comes most to persons who seek it 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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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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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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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs