There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

John Burroughs in Birds and Poets (1887)
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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.

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I still find each day to 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.

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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.

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