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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
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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
New York
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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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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.
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[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.
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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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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.
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
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