John Muir Famous Quotes
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
John Muir Quotations
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D Roosevelt
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Virgil
"What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
Aristotle
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
Abraham Lincoln
"For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest."
Lord Byron
"When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
Cicero
"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."
Mignon McLaughlin
"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
F Scott
"Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent."
Napolean Hill
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things."
Ecclesiates 1922 Bible