Quotes with acorns

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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unexerted
• unnoticed
• silence
• forest
• felled
• echoes

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