Quote by John Burroughs
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs

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Men
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. Thatd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. – Danica Patrick

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Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. – Henry David Thoreau

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. – Henry Morgan

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The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. – Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Rev

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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. – Ambrose Bierce

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Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever. – Les Paul

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good