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- Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,… — William Cowper
- To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? — Beverley Nichols
- All my hurts my garden spade can heal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow
- To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think,… — John Ruskin
- The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian
- Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession. — William Shakespeare
- In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque