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• The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

  John Abercrombie

  Character, Exercise, Imagination

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• The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the confident expectation that thereby the needless de-struction of the forests will be stayed, and the improvement of grounds about school buildings and residences will be promoted.

  Andrew S. Draper

  Children, School, Expectations

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• To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Heart, Erosion, Land

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• Taste is improved by cultivation.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Taste

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• There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.

  Washington Irving

  Sweet, Strong, Selfish

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• The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Mind, Biographies

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.382

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• An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Italian, Desire

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• Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Needs, Habit

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• ... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Men, May

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• The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

  David Ricardo

  Land, Class, Community

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.5

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• Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Thinking, Way, Virtue

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.175, A&C Black

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• Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were vehicles for the cultivation of life, knowledge, and virtue, not devices to throw people with.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, People, Technique

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• Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.

  B. W. Powe

  Communication, Self, Ebb And Flow

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body.  He has no right to loaf about idly; but after his day's work is done, he ought to harden his young body, so that life may not find him soft when he enters it.  No one should be allowed to sin at the expense of posterity, that is, of the race.

  Adolf Hitler

  Boys, Race, Done

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• Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Creation, Born

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• We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, School, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.114

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• Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

  Ovid

  Agriculture, Fields, Time Spent

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• Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.

  Elias Hasket Derby

  Ocean, Men, Agriculture

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• Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Trying, Doe

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Silence, Solitude

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• Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Stupid, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

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• The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our actions, founded upon moral freedom and accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues-these these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can exist without them.

  Joseph Story

  Responsibility, Punishment, Community

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.699

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• Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

  Brian Froud

  Garden, Lakes, Land

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• Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Mean, Law

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Mind, Body

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