"The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Growth, Nature, Life, Development

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"The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do."

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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Convert your knowledge into product."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"For a beautiful life, fill it with service and love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"

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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

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"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

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"Into each life some rain must fall."

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"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

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"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."

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"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."

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"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies."

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