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Quote by George Eliot
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Funerals
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George Eliot
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when theyre gone. – George Eliot

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Angels
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George Eliot
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gardening
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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. – Michael Pollan

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gardening

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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gardening

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. – Dogen Zenji

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gardening

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. – Emanuel Steward

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gardening

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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season

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One often has need of one, inferior to himself. – Jean De La Fontaine

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Inferiority

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. – Tom Wolfe

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famous

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and Im probably going to write about it in a different way. – Alex Kapranos

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Food