“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.”
John Burroughs
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“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.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“Leap, and the net will appear.”
John Burroughs
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“I think it saves much confusion to regard religion as quite distinct from morality, or the right conduct of life–as having necessarily nothing to do with these, but as a system of faith and worship, a belief in something extranatural…. Indeed, the most religious people are by no means the most moral. Hence it is that religion so rarely changes the man, or makes him practically any better. Let us keep things separated, religion by itself, and morality by itself. Religion implies a belief in the supernatural; in a personal deity who takes sides with or against us. A man may be pure, noble, virtuous, high-minded, spiritual, and not have a religion.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.”
John Burroughs
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“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Opportunity
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“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Men
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“Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“The secret of happiness is something to do.”
John Burroughs
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“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
John Burroughs
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age
