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

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

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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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Earth
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John Burroughs
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. – John Burroughs

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Happiness
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John Burroughs
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Wisdom
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As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free its simply because of the experiences that Ive had, and the wisdom Ive accumulated from that time. – Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Wisdom

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. – Ezra Stiles

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Wisdom

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. – Laurence Sterne

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Wisdom

Every wise man lives in an observatory. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Wisdom

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[A] morning-land full of immeasurable hopes encircled him; he stripped his breast, threw himself all aglow into the dripping grass, washed (but not with any higher purpose than girls have) his firm face with liquid June-snow… – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They wont have the patience to pick them out. – Martin Yan

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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