Acorns Quote by David Zindell

“What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.”

David Zindell

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An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

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It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.

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Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation…

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What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return…

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