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John Burroughs

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

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"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

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"The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way."

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"Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times."

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"Time given out through jobs can be channeled into something productive."

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"Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities."

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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

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"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."

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"The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless."

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"Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise."

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"Chance never helps those who do not help themselves."

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"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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"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
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"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
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"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."
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"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
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"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."
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"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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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
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