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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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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
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Delaware County
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Eighteen
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Western

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Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
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The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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