"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."

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John Burroughs

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“Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.”
“Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.”
“All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.”
“The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex.”
“The state is the nursing mother of human culture.”
“Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.”
“You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.”
“The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.”

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