Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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