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Letter "O" » oak
«The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.»
Author: James Allen
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Statesman)
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About:
Achievement
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Keywords:
acorn,
acorns,
Angel,
bird,
egg,
oak,
realities,
seedling,
seedlings,
sleeps,
stirs,
The Bird,
waking
«The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.»
«When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze»
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Biographer,
Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bends,
calamities,
elasticity,
escapes,
frivolous,
loftier,
oak,
presence of mind,
recover,
resists,
tempest,
tempests,
The Tempest,
The Willows,
willow,
willows