Withered Tree Quotes

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

  Mortimer Adler

  Lost Friendship, Desire, Conjugal

  "Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough".

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• Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Enlightenment

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• O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

  Chanakya

  Wise, Sweet, Men

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• From a withered tree, a flower blooms

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Tree, Withered

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• Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

  Dogen

  Dragons, Tree, Doe

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• Love likes not the falling fruit,
  Nor the withered tree.

  Walter Raleigh

  Fall, Tree, Likes

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• My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Beautiful, Rain

  Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

  Chanakya

  Family, Son, Tree

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• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Spring, Grief, Cutting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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