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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
Explore more quotes by John Burroughs
"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."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
"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."
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
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