Quote by John Burroughs
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. - John Bu

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. – John Burroughs

Other quotes by John Burroughs

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

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Failure
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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. – John Burroughs

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Science
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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History
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. – Aristotle

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

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I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. – Billy Ray Cyrus

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Wisdom

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. Youve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe Ive got my Freud mixed up. Its just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. – Vera Farmiga

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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say… Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear. – Thomas Carlyle

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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. – William Stafford

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When a fellow says, It aint the money but the principle of the thing, its the money. – Kin Hubbard

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