A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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