"If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden;
if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree." »English proverb
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"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." »Thomas Paine
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"Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose." »Richard Dawkins
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"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'" »John F. Kennedy
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"plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." »Anthony Norvell
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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel." »Thomas Paine
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"I must be cruel, only to be kind." »William Shakespeare
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"War is cruel and you cannot refine it." »William Tecumseh Sherman
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." »Greek Proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword." »Robert Burton
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"Goodbye cruel world." »Gloria Shayne
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"To revive sorrow is cruel." »Sophocles
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"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." »Nelson Henderson
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." »Martin Luther
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"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion." »Edward Abbey
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"Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths." »Moliere
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"The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine." »George Sand
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"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same." »Norman Mailer
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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." »Dr.
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