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Letter "L" » leaf
«If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree»
«Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
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Essayist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Life,
Time
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Keywords:
dew,
dews,
edges,
edge in,
edging,
leaf,
leafing,
lightly,
Over the Edge,
time like,
tip,
tipped,
tips
«If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?»
«I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.»
«I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.»
«In her mouth was an olive-leaf pluckt off.»
«I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.»
«Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
distinguished,
esteemed,
floating,
gall,
insects,
leaf,
lily,
midsummer,
oftentimes,
ornament,
pad,
padded,
riddled,
shrub,
shrubs
«Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.»
«I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
accompany,
fall into,
leaf,
look to,
My Way,
obedience,
sere,
The Yellow,
troops,
way of life,
yellow