Quote by John Burroughs
A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins t

A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

Other quotes by John Burroughs

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. – John Burroughs

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Nature
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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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Promises
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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. – John Burroughs

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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. – Robert E. Howard

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. – Jack Kerouac

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Failure

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. – Tammy Bruce

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Failure

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing Ive ever done. Once I was married, I didnt want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. – Shannen Doherty

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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. – Beverly Jones

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Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. – Jack Schwartz

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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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