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• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead… — William Bernbach
• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by… — Charlotte Bronte
• The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. — Sylvia Browne
• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable… — A. S. Byatt
• He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. — Henry Ward Beecher
• I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden...… — Charles Dudley Warner
• The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds. — Plutarch
• Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds? — Henry David Thoreau
• Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. — William Shakespeare
• What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would… — Thomas Huxley

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