"I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!""

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Source : Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

E. Nesbit

#Weed Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Stars Quotes

“Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!”
“The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.”
“The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.269, Transaction Publishers
“Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim”
“Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.”
“Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.”
“Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.”
“Is it really so important to be different?”

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