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.
JOHN BURROUGHSLike tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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