"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

Attention, Effort, Garden, Intentions

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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

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"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

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Sandra Day O'Connor, American Judge

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"The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done."

Zebulon Pike, American Soldier

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"The constant attention is what is so difficult."

Natalie Wood, American Actress

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"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

Christopher Morley, American Author

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"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."

Samuel Goldwyn, American Producer

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"Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest."

George Combe, American Educator

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