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“The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.”

Has Beens Law Poor Tree Land Danger Despair Fruit Bitter Code Poison Length Fabulous Dilemma Bud Depravity

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.”

Men Firsts States Form Found Enjoy Race Progress Land Constant Fruit Conquer Realms Beast Feds Prey Civilisation

Book:Religion and Art

Source: Religion and Art

“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.”

Stills Desire Fire Land Pride Fruit Stranger Rage Bread Bitter Suits Boards Feds Fierce Crow Shameless Baffled Clamour

Author:Bhartrhari

“People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.”

People Looks Hard Land Achieve Hard Work Hollywood Fruit Expensive

Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.”

Trying Humans May Whole Quality Land Flower Duty Rain Shame Fruit Limitation Desert Cheerful Adaptation Offspring Tropical Flora

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.”

Sin Tree Land Fruit Bores

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.”

People Home Grows Effort Land Needed Fortune Fruit Apples Equipment Farming Orchard Fertilizer Work Effort Seedlings

Author:Ted Nugent

“The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.”

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”

Giving Stills Two Might Moving Lord Land Fields Late Seasons Fruit Portions Get Over Our Lord Two Days

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

“My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.”

Trying Firsts Littles Father Lost Cutting Land Paper Fruit Farmers Vegetables Harvest Cotton Mills Rail Little Money

Author:Johnny Cash