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- His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs
- The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it… — Richard Dawkins
- Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so,… — Obafemi Awolowo
- With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo
- Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall
- A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough… — S. J. Perelman
- Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously… — Henry Morton Stanley
- What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a… — John Heywood
- WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO… — Oliver Cromwell
- As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness… — Edward Thomas
- The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us,… — Thornton Wilder
- There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning