Oaks Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

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Imaginary evils are incurable.

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Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

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Genius points the way, talent takes it.

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Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and…

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The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

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Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

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Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

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“Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ”

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Those whom we support hold us up in life.

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Pity is love in undress.

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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

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Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

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Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar…

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in…

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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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

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I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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…

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

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