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It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting…

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months…
The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!…
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today…
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a…
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for…
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes…
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of…
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great… — Niels Bohr
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat. — Carl von Clausewitz
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the… — Carl Sagan
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our… — Brother Lawrence
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years… — Abraham Lincoln
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. — William Shakespeare
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the… — Abraham Lincoln
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with… — Michel de Montaigne
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