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The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds


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Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DE VINCI Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.
LEONARDO DA VINCI The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
DAVID HUME The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds
DAVID HUME As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choi...
JAMES ALLEN A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds/ If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; ...
DOROTHEA DIX More drugs come from soil organisms than from any other habitat on Earth. Soil will be the richest e...
JO HANDELSMAN If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God’s rain. Even if God pours down a he...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is only the wife, and not just any woman, who constitutes the noble soil that produces excellent ...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The combination of the landscape fabric and the mulch stops light getting to the soil and slows or s...
DEBRA LIDSTONE Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a m...
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.
SUZANNE COLLINS The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Injustice in the end produces independence.
VOLTAIRE If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
JOHN PAUL JONES If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.
SUNDAY ADELAJA So that I might face my past,
I dug these words from the richest southern soil
and held th...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE Jesus said the weeds would grow with the wheat until the Judgement," Dietrich answered, "so one find...
MICHAEL FLYNN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on ...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tu...
CHARLES HADDEN SPURGEON Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just tur...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Instead, they're cultivated like corn or potatoes on plantations. The tree farmers use a lot of pois...
HELGE MAY Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTË Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.
JAY GREENE If your pain is the same like somebody else, I think that this will be the best couple it will be.
DEYTH BANGER Weeds are stubborn. Weeds are independent. Weeds aren't tolerated.
MARTY RUBIN The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
LESTER COLE Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ac...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The Richest person is not the Happiest person, the Happiest person is the Richest person.
RVM Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the lar...
DAN BARBER If you don’t plant, you get nothing but weeds.
VIKRANT PARSAI Frankly, plowing contributes to greenhouse gases because the soil is the largest carbon sink on eart...
DUANE GRANT You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
WARREN BUFFETT If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
NICOLA STURGEON If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians
WARREN BUFFETT We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the ri...
JAZZ FEYLYNN Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE The richest business person in life currently is not necessarily the richest business person we shou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so ...
CAROL VORVAIN You can't keep up with the weeds.
RITA SMITH If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.-RVM
RVM If investor confidence produces a stock market rally, the dollar could get a boost.
ANDREW CHAVERIAT Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
AFRICAN PROVERB If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The richest journey is the inner journey.
RASHEED OGUNLARU Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
OSCAR WILDE It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzl...
JAMES BAMFORD You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.
BRYANT MCGILL Marke it welle,There are flowers, and there are weeds-But mostly weeds.
SCOTT ORVILLE BERGREN Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be re...
NANCY JO SALES The hair is the richest ornament of women.
MARTIN LUTHER The hand has the richest articulation of space.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.
In my garden, I've only got weeds. I think they'r...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Maurice Saatchi cultivated the press instead of the clients.
DAVID HERRO Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soi...
JANE SHELLENBERGER The richest minds need not large libraries.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT All success lies within the imagination,if you can sufficiently imagine you are the best or the rich...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
JOHN HARRISON The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
PAUL COOKSON Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and ca...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans ...
BIBLE Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves an...
GEOFFREY WOOD What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
OTTO RANK The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou...
PLUTARCH For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH Diversity wasn't always cultivated along the banks of the Charles.
ARTHUR LUBOW The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations pro...
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER The weeds of doubt ruin the garden of mind.
IRFAN SAEED Contractors always take soil borings to determine any problems with the soil,
ED VARGO Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Life is a garden, don’t water the weeds.
VIKRANT PARSAI Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING Success produces success, just as money produces money
DIANE ACKERMAN He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And t...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
RUTH E. RENKEL That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He is the richest who is content with the least
SOCRATES Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
RUTH E RENKEL The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
NOAH WEBSTER That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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