Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides
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What is the best thing for a stream It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something.John Burroughs
Happiness comes most to persons who seek her 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.
John Burroughs
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
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking.
John Burroughs
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