"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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"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment." »Saint Bernard
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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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"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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"What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt
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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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"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." »Greek proverb
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"Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom." »Johnson
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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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"Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty." »Jefferson Davis
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"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." »Golda Meir
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"Never be haughty to the humble never be humble to the haughty." »Jefferson Davis
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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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"It's Hard To Be humble When Your The Greatest" »Trevor Niles
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"It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am." »Muhammad Ali
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"I am no more humble than my talents require." »Oscar Levant
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"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble." »Phaedrus
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"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong." »Geoff Arbuthnot
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"The humble suffer when the mighty disagree." »Phaedrus
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"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy." »Blessing Irish
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"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top." »Saskya Pandita
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"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." »Phillip Chesterfield
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