Oak Quotes by Phillips Brooks

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• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. — Walter Scott
• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an… — Thomas Carlyle
• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in… — James Allen
• The hardest shot in golf is a mashie at 90 yards from the green, where the ball has to be played against… — Zeppo Marx
• The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn. — Charles Tomlinson
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau
• Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham
• For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most… — Herman Melville

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