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"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."
Man
"The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives."
Happiness
"There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless."
Quality
"There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."
Beauty
"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade."
Beauty
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
Gardening
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
Trust
"In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone."
Wisdom
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