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Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
Naturalist
Writer
Delaware County
New York
Every
Life
Despise
World
Center
Hour
Stars
Hours
Opportunity
Place

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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.
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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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The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.
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Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
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