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Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last. — Richard Sibbes
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation.… — Rajneesh
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the… — Benjamin Franklin
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both… — Stephen Covey
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in… — Norman Mailer
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If… — Ajahn Chah
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?… — Charles Lamb
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in… — William Bligh
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want… — Ignatius Loyola
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous… — Robert Boyle
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. — Meister Eckhart
Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the… — Chogyam Trungpa
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success… — Robert Menzies
America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric… — George W. Bush
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life… — Helen Keller
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to… — Percy Lubbock
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Unknown Author
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths. — Thomas Cole
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. — Walt Whitman
My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance… — Margaret Bourke-White
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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