We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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 find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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