Quote by John Burroughs
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. – John Burroughs

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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Birds
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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs

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Personality
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. – Aeschylus

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Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. – Author Unknown

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Promises

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller

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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. – Proverb

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I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilsons birthday party. – Matthew Sweet

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Birthday

I went whole hog at the actors lifestyle – really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary – thats the first place I ever did it, in the seminary. – Peter Jurasik

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teacher

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating ones uses. – Sarah Orne Jewett

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Happiness