“ The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. ”
- Pope John XXIII- Copy
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“ Where grows? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. ”
- Marcus Manilius- Copy
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“ A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ”
- Thomas Tusser- Copy
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“ We need a comprehensive, ambitious agreement to cut barriers to trade in the three key areas: agriculture, non-agricultural market access, and services. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
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“ Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
- 93
“ The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. ”
- G. Macdonald- Copy
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“ A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. ”
- Cicero- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. ”
- Xenophon- Copy
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“ Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 196
“ No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Raising money takes dogged persistence, bullheadedness, salesmanship, year-round cultivation, board support and encouragement, a plan, an attainable goal, and lots of excitement. ”
- Brian O’Connell- Copy
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“ The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms. ”
- Marques De Pombal- Copy
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“ Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. ”
- Seneca- Copy
- 543
“ It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. ”
- Robert G. Menzies- Copy
- 352
“ Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”
- Orson Scott Card- Copy
- 3.5K
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