Quotes with planting

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• Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.

  ― Albert Bushnell Hart
  American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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• Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

  ― Berthold Auerbach
  German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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• Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

  ― Bono
  Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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• I want death to find me planting my cabbage

  ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

  ― Joyce Chapman
   
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• The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

  ― Robert Collier
  American author
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• The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

  ― Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-centered
• procreation
• approbation
• yesterday
• principle
• drilling

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