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  • Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

    Spring   Heart   Light  
    Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”
  • Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it.

    People   Sap   Path  
  • I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to.

    Sap   Cry   Feels  
    "John Krasinski Will Take a Photo with You, but Here's Where He Draws the Line". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. August 24, 2016.
  • This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.

  • SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

    Sap   Oracles   Becoming  
  • I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

    Voting   Democracy   Sap  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

    Passion   Fire   Sap  
    William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.25
  • Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

    Religious   Xmas   Prayer  
    W. C. Fields, Ronald J. Fields (1973). “W. C. Fields by himself: his intended autobiography”, Prentice Hall
  • When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.

    Heart   Blood   Hands  
    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.40, Lulu.com
  • The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

    Order   Solitude   Mind  
  • I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.

    Flower   Heart   Fate  
    Marion Dudley Cran (1913). “The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden”
  • Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

    Self   Envy   Energy  
  • Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

    Tree   Energy   Sap  
    Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”
  • In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of the wind, the talk of old women warning the green generation of what they, too, must come to when the sap runs back.

    Running   Women   Heart  
    Jacquetta Hawkes (1952). “A land”
  • What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

    Mirrors   Perfect   Sap  
    "Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2008.
  • Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

    Goodbye   Running   Sweet  
    John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press
  • I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.

    Eye   Flames   Fire  
    Mary Balogh (2004). “Slightly Dangerous”, p.183, Delacorte Press
  • We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

    Tree   Magic   Sap  
    Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.170, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  • Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

    Spring   Healing   Heart  
    Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press
  • I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you. It was like the strength of you just seemed to sap away. The surprise of it stopped me from being so scared.

    Dad   Men   Tears  
    Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.
  • Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

    Laughter   Wine   Men  
    'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 179
  • The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

    Summer   Spring   Autumn  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73
  • The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

    Heart   Joy   Fascination  
    "The Fascination of What's Difficult" l. 1 (1910)
  • Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

    Looks   Sap   Opponents  
    Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation
  • If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

    Hatred   Energy   Needs  
  • General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

    Roots   Tree   Principles  
    "Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".
  • Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs.

  • In felling a tree we should cut into the trunk of it to the very heart, and then leave it standing so that the sap may drain out drop by drop throughout the whole of it... Then and not till then, the tree being drained dry and the sap no longer dripping, let it be felled and it will be in the highest state of usefulness.

    Heart   Cutting   Tree  
    "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 3), circa 15 BC.
  • Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

    Tree   Sap   Laziness  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.
  • I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

    Hurt   Giving   Joy  
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