A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHS
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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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 homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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