“ The Vine and the Goat A vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice. ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that. ”
- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner- Copy
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“ Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. ”
- Abbie Hoffman- Copy
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“ Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ”
- Thomas Beecham- Copy
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“ Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. ”
- Charles Mackay- Copy
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“ Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves. ”
- Humbert Wolfe- Copy
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“ Some people are always complaining because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ”
- Alphonse Karr- Copy
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“ To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf, Periwinkles interlaced Drawn for belt about the waist; While the brown bees, humming praises, Shot their arrows round the chief. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Hot summer has exhausted her intentTo the last rose and roundelay seed.No leaf has changed, and yet these leaves now readLike a love-letter that's no longer meant. ”
- Richard Wilbur- Copy
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“ Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very wellWhen the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago — Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fellThere is nothing hidden from the eyes below. ”
- Susan Coolidge- Copy
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“ The stripped and shapelyMaple grievesThe ghosts of herDeparted leaves. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ”
- E. H. Gombrich- Copy
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“ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ”
- Kehlog Albran- Copy
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“ Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
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“ Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting. ”
- Abbie Hoffman- Copy
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“ My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk. ”
- Jerry Hunt- Copy
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“ Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ”
- James Hastings- Copy
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“ What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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