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John Burroughs quotes (12) It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. John Burroughs Category: Belief Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. John Burroughs Category: Literature A man may fail many times but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs Category: Blame 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. John Burroughs Category: Nature To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. John Burroughs Category: Old 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. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. John Burroughs Category: Eyes The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place but a state of mind. John Burroughs Category: Heaven Life is a struggle but not a warfare. John Burroughs Category: Trouble The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs Category: Diet 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. John Burroughs Category: Volunteer One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them.... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. John Burroughs Category: Unsorted How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. John Burroughs Category: Age |
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