Quote by John Burroughs
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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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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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. – John Burroughs

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What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. – G. K. Chesterton

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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen. – Marvel Bell

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. – Bhagavad Gita

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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. – Wernher von Braun

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