Creative Quotations from . . .
John Burroughs
(1837-1921) born on
Apr 03
US author, naturalist. He was a popular writer who, like Thoreau, celebrated nature in "Wake Robin," 1871 and "Birds and Poets," 1877.
         
   
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F
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

R
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
A
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
N
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
K
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
R: "The Heart of Burroughs Journals."
A: In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N: In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979.
K: In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
 

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