“ Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are our gardeners… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ the right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first to the young plants, and after that to the others. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. ”
- Jack Welch- Copy
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“ I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. ”
- Francis Cabot Lowell- Copy
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“ The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. ”
- George Balanchine- Copy
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“ Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners. ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
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“ A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master — gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits, which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers an fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts… ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ When we don't prune in the garden, Nature does it for us through wind, ice, hail, fire, and flood. One way or another, the boughs will be shaped and strengthened. If we don't prune away the stress and plow under the useless in our lives, pain will do it for us… ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
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“ If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. ”
- Hammurabi- Copy
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