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I still find each day too short.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.
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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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....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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The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
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Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.
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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
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The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.
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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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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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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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One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
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What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
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