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"This book had my complete attention from the very first word on the very first page. If it isn't considered a classic already, it absolutely deserves to be." — Jul 10, 2026 03:54AM
"This book had my complete attention from the very first word on the very first page. If it isn't considered a classic already, it absolutely deserves to be." — Jul 10, 2026 03:54AM
The Nature Lover's Quotation Book: An Inspired Collection for Hiking, Camping and the Great Outdoors
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Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest. —UEDA AKINARI
“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”
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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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