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«If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.»
Author: Charlie Brown | Keywords: batch, comes out, dumbest, explains, oak, oak tree, peek, peeking, poison, poison oak
«Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree»
Author: Ethiopian Proverb | Keywords: enters, needle, oak, oak tree, spreads
«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
Author: Thomas Kyd | Keywords: bull, cleave, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, Flint, flints, haggard, hawking, hawks, in time, lure, lured, lures, luring, oak, pierced, pierces, piercing, savage, shower, softest, stoop, sustains, wedge, wedges, yoke, yoked, yokes
«How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.»
Author: Andrew Marvell (Poet, Politician, Satirist) | Keywords: amaze, bays, bay tree, crowned, herb, incessant, oak, oak tree, palm, palm tree, vainly
«Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.»
Author: William Arthur Ward | Keywords: acorn, acorns, blossom, blossoming, bulb, faith, garden, giant, lovelier, lovely, oak, seed, sees, The Blossoms
«His heart was mailed with oak and triple brass who first committed a frail ship to the wild seas.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | Keywords: frail, mailed, oak, triple
«In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak»
Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: oak
«Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: continents, converted, gases, gnarled, islands, oak, volatile
«Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: acorn, acorns, completion, fullness, oak
«How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | About: Family | Keywords: aged, board, oak, planted, reclining
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