Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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