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“New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.”

Cutting Return Spring Roots New Beginnings

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”

Mean Attention Virtue Spring Roots Instruments Excellence Compelled Manuals

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.”

“In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.”

Fall Sweet Flower Spring Roots March Showers Veins April Liquor Pierce Drought

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing,--the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations.”

Firsts Light Individual Energy Nations Progress Failing Industry Civilization Blessing Spring Labor Roots Perseverance Prudence Stimulus Chastisement

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.”

May War Poor Spring Roots Fruit Graves Civil War Brown Bitterness John Brown

Author:Fanny Kemble

“life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.”

Life Humans Light Earth Life Is Values Dark Human Beings Knowing Mets Spring Roots Sunshine Pushing Greatest Gifts Value Of Life More Knowledge Daffodil

Book:Camilla

Source: Camilla

“Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.”

Feels Heart Stills Soul Grows Failing Approach Spring Roots Misery Expected Secure Poison Affliction Recess Uneasiness

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Our virtues and view spring from one root.”

Views Virtue Spring Roots

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.”

Doe Today Remember Nations Water Freedom Sleep Democracy Sweet Flower Bears Spring Roots Saved Bosoms Patronage

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.”

World Want Dies Water Sun Flower Lessons Spring Roots Essence Raises Mortals Soil Delicate I Want You Perfume Petals Muddy Elementals Lotuses

Author:Colleen Houck

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”

Art Artist Religion Economic Spring Economics Roots Stranger Religion And Art

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Christian Causes Religious Sin Spring Roots Orthodox

Author:Saint Basil

“A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.”

Dies Mountain Spring Bird Roots Wings Darling Lizards Moles Wings To Fly

Book:Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.”

Should Dies Tree Spring Roots Contact Streams Trunks

Author:Pythagoras

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.”

Lying Education Virtue Teacher Honesty Spring Roots Appreciation Good Teacher Best Teacher Good Education Education And Teachers Teachers And Teaching Teacher Appreciation Thank You Appreciation Thanking Teachers Thank You Teacher Good Spring

Author:Plutarch

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

Source: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

“- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.”

Wells Long Fall Growth Summer Spring Roots Seasons Winter Fall And Winter

Book:Being There

Source: Being There

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”

Thinking Men Years Children Ends Hands Together Names Stars Water Secret Sun Tree Wind Source Spring Roots Distance Shining Arise Crafts Candle Unborn Syllables Wizardry Unborn Child

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter,rain. If thats true, I want to be buried right here under this tree. Its roots will reach into the soft mess of my body and suck me dry. I'll be re-formed as apple blossom. I'll drift down in the spring like confetti and cling to my family's shoes. They'll carry me in their pockets to help them sleep. What dreams will they have then?”

Ifs Want Humans Made Helping Dream Body Dies Stars Sleep Tree Return Spring Rain Roots My Family Shoes Nuclear Dust Mess Apples Dry Pockets Buried Ashes Glitter Confetti

Author:Jenny Downham

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

“My granda always told me that fall's the time to root up something you don't want coming back to trouble you.' Kote mimicked the quaver of an old man's voice. 'Things are too full of life in the spring months. In the summer, they're too strong and won't let go. Autumn...' He looked around at the changing leaves on the trees. 'Autumn's the time. In autumn everything is tired and ready to die.”

Men Want Dies Fall Strong Voice Trouble Tree Ready Months Letting Go Summer Spring Roots Tired Autumn Old Man Coming Back Ready To Die

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”

Life Given Love Is Cry Spring Roots Thee Spares

Book:Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle

Source: Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle

“Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”

States Age Mankind Poet Spring Roots Fruit Innocent Golden Streams Never Ending Golden Age Garden Of Eden Nectar

Book:Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings

Source: Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”

Kind Compassion Kindness Tree Spring Roots Valentine's Day Love And Kindness Kindness And Compassion Acts Of Kindness Inspirational Kindness Random Acts Of Kindness Generosity And Kindness Kindness Generosity Small Acts Of Kindness Random Kindness

Author:Amelia Earhart

“Love, as the poet says, is like the spring. It grows on you and seduces you slowly and gently, but it holds tight like the roots of a tree. You don't know until you're ready to go that you can't move, that you would have to mutilate yourself in order to be free. That's the feeling. It doesn't last, at least it doesn't have to. But it holds on like a steel claw in your chest. Even if the tree dies, the roots cling to you. I've seen men and women give up everything for love that once was.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Feelings Lasts Moving Order Dies Grows Tree Ready Poet Giving Up Spring Men And Women Roots Chests Steel Claws Seducing

Author:Walter Mosley

“Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Littles Hands Nature Flower Wall Spring Roots If I Could April Springtime Pluck God And Nature Pansies

Book:English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)

Source: English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)

“Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.”

Earth House Water Poor Sun Saws Rocks Fronts Ambition Spring Rain Rivers Roots Died Bones Invisible Dirty Grass Yellow Abandoned Revealing Patches Lawns Straws Knuckles Lavender

Book:Toujours Provence

Source: Toujours Provence

“Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.”

“If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.”

“Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream. One such to melt at the tongue's root, Confounding taste with scent, Beats a full peck of garden fruit: Which points my argument.”

Source: Country Sentiment

“A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.”

Leadership Spring Roots Brave Soldier Branches Captains Veteran Veterans Day Brave Soldiers

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”

People Firsts Greatness Hero Worship Spring Roots Tyranny Champion Tyrants Nurse Plato Protector

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study