Quotes by John Burroughs
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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.
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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