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

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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs

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Failure
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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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Other Quotes from
Wisdom
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Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. – Julia Ward Howe

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Wisdom

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

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Wisdom

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. – Anatole France

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Wisdom

Wisdom begins at the end. – Daniel Webster

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Wisdom

Random Quotes

I left my marriage knowing Id have to work. I have. – Sarah Ferguson

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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. I started going for long lone country walks among the spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end, giving myself up to the earth-scents and the sky-winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. – Monica Baldwin, I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eig

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Im not really interested in making money. – Steven Spielberg

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Money

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. – Don Delillo

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Secrets