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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… — Dorothy Wordsworth
• The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Unknown Author
• Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but… — Francis Bacon
• This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift
• Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham
• The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. — William C. Bryant
• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. — Edmund Waller
• But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of… — William Shakespeare
• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And… — Wallace Stevens
• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera
• Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. — Andrew Marvell

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