"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

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Source : John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

John Burroughs

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen”
“We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.”
“I never meant to be but a dreamer.”
“What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering.”

Source : Gerald Epstein (2008). “Kabbalah for Inner Peace: Imagery and Insights to Guide You Through Your Day”, p.15, Gerald Epstein
“[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.”
“I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???”
“Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.”
“Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.”

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