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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 -
Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
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