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Letter "P" » plant
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
(
President)
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About:
Friendship
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Keywords:
adversity,
all but,
appellation,
be intimate,
be well,
confidence,
courteous,
entitle,
entitled,
entitles,
intimate,
intimates,
intimate with,
intimating,
plant,
shocks,
slow,
tried,
tried and true,
undergo,
undergone,
underwent,
well-tried,
withstand,
withstanding,
withstood
«A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.»
Author: Greek proverb
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About:
Age,
Society
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Keywords:
Great Society,
grows,
old,
plant,
shade,
shaded,
shading,
shall,
sit,
sit in,
society,
trees
«Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.»
«Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.»
Author: Martin Luther
(
Priest,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
apple,
Apple I,
apple tree,
go to,
go to pieces,
knew,
pieces,
plant,
The Apples,
Tomorrow the,
Tree
«Another fresh new year is here . . .Another year to live!To banish worry, doubt, and fear,To love and laugh and give!This bright new year is given meTo live each day with zest . . .To daily grow and try to beMy highest and my best!I have the opportunityOnce more to right some wrongs,To pray for peace, to plant a tree,And sing more joyful songs!»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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About:
New Year
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Keywords:
banish,
banishes,
banishing,
bright,
daily,
each day,
fresh,
fresher,
freshest,
highest,
joyful,
once more,
plant,
sing,
songs,
The New Year,
wrongs,
year,
zest
«All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.»
«Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.»
Author: Jack Handy
(
Writer)
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About:
Ambition
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Keywords:
ambition,
bother,
flytrap,
frog,
plant,
sitting,
some other,
teeth,
The Frogs,
tiny,
Venus
«Don't plant more garden than your wife can care for»
«All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Progress
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Keywords:
bud,
budded,
budding,
fruit,
instinct,
plant,
render,
root,
The Plant,
unfolded,
unfolding,
vegetable
«A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground»