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
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHS