“ Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.- Copy
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“ If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. ”
- David Eccles- Copy
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“ Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
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“ Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came. ”
- Sidney Lanier- Copy
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“ If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers… ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
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“ Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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