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Letter "W" » weeds
«They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.»
Author: Dianne Benson
| Keywords:
camouflage, concluded, dupe, duped, dupes, plants, respectable, weeds
«Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole»
Author: Oliver Cromwell
| Keywords:
briar, briars, discontentment, division, nettle, nettled, nettles, thriven, weeds
«Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.»
«The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
fertile, rankest, richest, shoots, uncultivated, weeds
«Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds»
Author: Emily Bronte
(Author, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
creeds, unutterably, weeds, wither, worthless
«The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
cultivated, produces, rankest, richest, soil, weeds
«The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.»
«The vilest deeds like poison-weeds- Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man - That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - And the Warden is Despair»
«The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
benefactor, destroyer, The Destroyer, thistle, thistles, weeds
«Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Literature
| Keywords:
haste, weeds
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