Quotes with holly-tree

Quotes 61 till 80 of 128.

  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Keats If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Jim Rohn If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Bernard De Voto It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Francis Bacon It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Emily Brontë Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Aaron Hill Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Casey Affleck My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Arthur Holly Compton My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
    Arthur Holly Compton
    American physicist
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  • Robert Frost My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
    Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
    English actor and theatre manager (1852 - 1917)
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  • Katherine Mansfield No bird sits a tree more proudly than a pigeon.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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