Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Native American Proverb
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Think much, speak little, write less. ~French Proverb
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Don’t quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port. ~Gaelic Proverb
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
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If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. ~Proverb
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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ~Jorge Luis Borges
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~English Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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