Quote by John Burroughs
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are mor

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – 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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I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. – John Burroughs

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Trees
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Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. – Cher

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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Dont trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. – Charles Dickens

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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The more I see of men, the more I like dogs. – Germaine de Staël

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau

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The deed is everything, the glory naught. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain

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One picture is worth 1,000 denials. – Ronald Reagan

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