Horace Quotes, Spring Quotes, Garden Quotes

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Kings Quotes , Garden Quotes

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Garden Quotes , Religion Quotes

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Work Quotes , Garden Quotes

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Garden Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Garden Quotes

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Garden Quotes , Grace Quotes

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Garden Quotes

I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Garden Quotes , Two Quotes

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Garden Quotes , Hair Quotes

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Real Quotes , Garden Quotes

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

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Tags : Al Jarreau Quotes , Garden Quotes , Years Quotes

To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Garden Quotes

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Garden Quotes , Religion Quotes

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Garden Quotes , Years Quotes

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Garden Quotes , Novelty Quotes

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Wall Quotes , Garden Quotes

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Garden Quotes

Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

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Tags : Alan Finger Quotes , Yoga Quotes , Garden Quotes

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Garden Quotes , Snakes Quotes