"The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest."

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Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK

Dorothy Wordsworth

#Retirement Quotes #Growing Quotes #Female Quotes

“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”

Source : Jennifer McMahon (2014). “The Winter People: A Novel”, p.22, Anchor
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“People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.”
“You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.”
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“My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.”
“Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.”
“When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.”

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