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Quote by Thomas Moore
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep t

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore

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The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Neer stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way. – Thomas Moore

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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – thats training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. – Thomas Moore

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. – Gertrude Jekyll

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It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. – Orison Swett Marden

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