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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day." »Kenneth Patton
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"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers." »Anonymous
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"A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have." »Unknown
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"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?" »Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
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"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." »Chinese Proverb
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"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing." »Albert P. Ryder
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"A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character." »Henry David Thoreau
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"This is the flag of the future, but it does not dishonor the past. (On his country's new Maple leaf flag)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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