John Burroughs Quotes

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

Life, Friends, Thoughts

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

Failure, Blame, Else

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

Patience, Love, Work

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

Motivational, Appear, Leap

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

Nature, Put, Order

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs

Birthday, Age, Old

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs

Failure, Blame, Trying

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs

Broken, Spirit, Miracle

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

Beautiful, Old, Light

If you think you can do it, you can.
John Burroughs

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Wisdom, Greatest, Deed

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs

Great, Difficult, Distant

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs

Nature, Moral, She

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
John Burroughs

Wanted, Once, Somebody

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs

Religion, Mind, Place

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

Alone, Science, Old

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
John Burroughs

Path, Learn, Took

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
John Burroughs

Another, Treat, Facts

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs

Science, Done, Western

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs

Work, Happiness, Happy

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs

Minds, Deny, Naturally

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs

Life, Struggle, Warfare

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.
John Burroughs

Work, Heart, Blessed

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

History, Feeling, Natural

John Burroughs Quote

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs

Religion, Joy, Universe

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 3, 1837

Died: March 29, 1921

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