“ He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. ”
- John Colville- Copy
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“ Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
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“ The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
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“ The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. ”
- Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon- Copy
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“ Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
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“ One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give… ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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