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" I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors. "
John James Audubon
Me
Acts
Only
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" The mercantile business did not suit me. "
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" The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. "
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Flight
Bird
Eagle
" Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. "
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Family
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Eyes
" Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. "
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Heart
Destiny
Mountains
" In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so. "
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View
America
Object
" There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant. "
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Alone
Chance
Flying
" My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. "
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Success
Prevail
Genius
" Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country. "
John James Audubon
Places
Me
Interesting
" I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could. "
John James Audubon
Best
Listening
Day
" To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. "
John James Audubon
Blessing
Good
Me
" Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. "
John James Audubon
Duty
Much
Mother
" The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops. "
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Gay
Challenge
Night
" How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? "
John James Audubon
Book
Little
Books
" A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better. "
John James Audubon
Drive
Go
Me
" Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? "
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Me
Hope
Think
" The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed? "
John James Audubon
Nature
Alone
Love
" After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside. "
John James Audubon
America
World
Peace
" To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. "
John James Audubon
Forever
Will
Kindness
" Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. "
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Never
Hurricane
Think
" I waged war against my feelings. "
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Feelings
Against
War
" I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. "
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Event
Curious
Help
" The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "
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More
Art
Beautiful
" One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. "
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Day
Four
One Day
" From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land. "
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Change
Eye
Good
" I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. "
John James Audubon
Life
Wife
Children
" There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures. "
John James Audubon
Love
God
Intelligence
" A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. "
John James Audubon
Who
Man
Environmental
" The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised. "
John James Audubon
Exhausted
Nature
Young
" Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. "
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Music
Drawing
Fishing
" I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure. "
John James Audubon
Good
Failure
Best