He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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