It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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