Quotes with weeds

  • The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
  • It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
  • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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  • Henry Ward Beecher He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Berthold Auerbach 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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Go oft to the house of thy friend,
    for weeds choke the unused path.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
    The Economist (November 1955)
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • David Hume The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Emily Brontë Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • A. A. Milne Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Fuller A good garden may have some weeds.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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