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«If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today»

Author: Joyce Chapman | About: Dreams | Keywords: by the hour, dead, dream, flowers, get laid, get the hang, grave, graver, gravest, grow, hanging, hang in, hang out, hang up, hour, laying, laying on, new, onto, O grave, planting, Seeds, still, The Seeds, today, yesterday

«Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth»

Author: Margaret Fuller | Keywords: call out, drudgery, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, planting, The Harrow, treasures

«The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.»

Author: Robert Collier | Keywords: desire, desire to know, first, first principle, knowing, planting, principle, seed, seeding, success, the first

«The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.»

Author: Thornton Wilder | Keywords: centered, planting, procreation, purer, self-centered

«In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home»

Author: Ulysses S. Grant (President) | About: Politics | Keywords: planting, Return to

«The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; / To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; / To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: acceptable, anointed, appoint, ashes, brokenhearted, captives, garment, glorified, heaviness, meek, mourn, mourning, planting, preach, proclaim, righteousness, The Prison, tidings, vengeance, Zion

«I want death to find me planting my cabbage»

Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: cabbage, cabbages, planting

«I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden»

Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: cabbages, caring, planting

«Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.»

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: approbation, corn, earn, epics, planting, the senses

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