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  • I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

    Food   Roots   Pigs  
  • Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.

    Attachment   Soul   Dry  
  • I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

    Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”
  • It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

    Habit   Easier   Thistles  
  • You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

    Running   Men   Light  
  • Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

    Taken   Dust   Thorns  
  • When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

    Autumn   White   Joy  
  • Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

    Tree   Thistles   Young  
  • The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

    Flower   Eye   Men  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.96, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company
  • I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

    Children   Yellow   White  
  • ... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

    Ideas   Soul   Mind  
  • Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

    Men   Mind   May  
    Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1957). “The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus: Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”
  • Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

    Life   Air   Games  
    George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196
  • A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

  • The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

    Weed   Spring   Fighting  
    Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”
  • If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.

    Plant   Thistles   Ifs  
    George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274
  • Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

    Success   Two   World  
    Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, p.146, Booklassic
  • And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

    Men   Harvest   Figs  
    Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.202
  • The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

    Weed   Green   Docks  
    'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44
  • I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.

    Summer   Fall   Autumn  
  • Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

    Docks   Losing   Hateful  
    'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44
  • The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.1, Library of Alexandria
  • Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and thistles of depression, discontent, and anxiety in the garden of your mind. Luckily, the opposite is also true. Consistently planting positive, healthy, constructive thoughts will yield a crop of beautiful feelings, such as gratitude, love, and joy.

    Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.52, New Harbinger Publications
  • Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

    Weed   Garden   Rose  
  • All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

  • I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

    Art   Money   Looks  
    Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd
  • Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow shines to cheer us; Ah! the sun comes never near us, And the heavens look dark and wile.

    Children   Cheer   Rain  
  • Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.

    Weed   Heart   Roots  
  • All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

  • A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

    Men   Gold   Riches  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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