Boughs Quotes
65 quotes by 53 authors
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
— Charles Tomlinson
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches…
— Francis Bacon
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
— Jonathan Swift
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Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind,…
— Edwin Markham
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
— William C. Bryant
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you…
— William Shakespeare
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One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold…
— Wallace Stevens
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,…
— Diego Rivera
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
— Andrew Marvell
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Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For…
— William Henry Davies
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When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer…
— Andrew Young
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Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
— Lucy Larcom
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A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
— George Iles
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Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
— Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
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Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives…
— Gaston Bachelard
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...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
— John M. Geddes
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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