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Alice Morse Earle has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months…
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!…
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Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today…
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a…
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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for…
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes…
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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of…
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still…
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I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a…
— Unknown Author
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
— Herbert Spencer
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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it…
— Mark Twain
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The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well…
— Ruth Bernhard
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
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Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an…
— Lewis Gordon
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It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
— Ogden Nash
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Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story…
— Unknown Author
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Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance:…
— Eve Curie
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Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?
— Muhammad Ali
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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp
— Seth Godin
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