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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

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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Family
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George Eliot
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

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Experience
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George Eliot
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Letters (writing)
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George Eliot
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I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that werent really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. – Ken Thompson

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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing… getting back to reality. – Adam Ant

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gardening

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. – Sean Bean

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gardening

In search of my mothers garden, I found my own. – Alice Walker

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gardening

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Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The Negro people of America… have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . – Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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