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Quote by May Sarton
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs,

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! – May Sarton

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Fear
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May Sarton
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. – May Sarton

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gardening
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May Sarton
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If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted! – Valerie Clague

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I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. – Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909

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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Farming is a profession of hope. – Brian Brett

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Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. – Mary McCarthy

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A man’s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. – Japanese Proverb

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez

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