"So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes."

-- Celia Thaxter

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“I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.”
“I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.”

Source : Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, Augustus De Morgan (2010). “Memoir of Augustus De Morgan: With Selections from His Letters”, p.137, Cambridge University Press
“We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him.”
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
“Manâ€™s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven manâ€™s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.”
“Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited
“I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.”
“I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.”

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