A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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