"There is no beauty like that which was……" — Charles Dudley Warner
"There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of."
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72 Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner
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You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself…
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The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that…
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of…
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A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
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I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in…
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into…
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The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike…
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Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
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Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
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