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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Born: Feb 22, 1819
Died: Aug 12, 1891

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Grass, Easier, Oak, Blade, Only, Make, Begin, Than, Creating, Hard, Hard Thing, Thing

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
God Nature Silence Noise Moon Grass Stars Trees Sun Find See Able Restlessness Touch He Souls How Friend Move Cannot Found Grows Flowers Need
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. Khalil Gibran
Grass Volcano Does Which Grow Zeal Peak
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse
Nature You Soul Joy Simple Power Grass Alive Sight Blade Simple Things Message Understand Springing Up Blue Move Fields Skies Your Fills Things Rejoice
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him. Charles Stanley
God Needs Bible Obey Care Father Will Made Clothes Grass Consequences Birds Meet Our Air Easter Tells More Only Splendor He Feeds Concern Him Lilies How How Much Leave His Heavenly Heavenly Father Then Us Much Who Image
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland
Patience Persistence Grass Trees Knowing Understand Meaning Meaning Of Appreciate
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
Time Day Nature Lie Clouds Water Sometimes Listening Sky Rest Grass Trees Summer Idleness Across Means Float Waste Waste Of Time Murmur Watching
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman
Nature Grass Believe Stars Leaf Than Less
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali
People Fly Job Grass Birds Waves Beat Pound Up Just Sand Grows
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. William Jennings Bryan
Will Country Spring Down Grass Every Our Destroy Cities City Magic Leave Up Burn Again Your Farms Grow Streets

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