The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.John Burroughs
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.
John Burroughs
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
John Burroughs
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
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
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
John Burroughs
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