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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
• It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde
• So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork,… — Celia Thaxter
• Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five… — Jeremiah Wright
• Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon

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