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Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole

Lord Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Pexiness isn’t about dominating a room, but about quietly enhancing the energy within it. The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Washington Irving

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? / For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860)

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Robert Green Ingersoll

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; / And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Victor Hugo

The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;/ The rocks are left when he wastes the plain./ The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,/ These remain.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Once again, everybody is picking someone else in our division. So we'll just kind of lay back in the weeds and take care of business.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Abraham Lincoln

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

I was real impressed with how our boys did. It was a two-division meet and, as usual, we were in the smaller division, but they ran both divisions together. [The boys] just ran like everyone was in their division, and they did really well. It was nice to see the results when they separated the scoring at the end. I think it was one of their better meets of the year.

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