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Results of search for Author: John Burroughs - Page 1 of 1
Showing results 1 to 9 of 9 total quotations found.

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

Results from Classic Quotes:

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
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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.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), The Snow-Walkers
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

Results from Poor Man's College:

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
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 (1837 - 1921)

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