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• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. — Henry Ward Beecher
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. — William Blake
• My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years.… — Jimmy Carter
• We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau
• The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot
• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,… — John Milton
• We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a… — George S. Patton
• The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and… — Charles Darwin
• The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach… — Sathya Sai Baba
• This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. — Walt Whitman
• Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky… — Rabindranath Tagore

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