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«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.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Day
| Keywords:
each day, the books, Too Short, walks
«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»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
currencies, currency, for anything, paper currency, promises, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing
«The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Spirit
| Keywords:
mend, miracle man, The Spirit of Man
«If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Books,
Friends,
Life,
Nature
| Keywords:
The three
«One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking»
«If you think you can do it, you can.»
«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.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
affords, congenial, occupation, outlet, outlets
«I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.»
«For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice»
«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.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
preaches, sermons, spark, stone, stones, teaches
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