Withered Tree Quotes

• 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.

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  George Eliot

  Spring   Grief   Cutting  

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

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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.

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  Robert Frost

  Love   Beautiful   Rain  

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

  546

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

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  Walter Raleigh

  Fall   Tree   Likes  

  4874

• 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.

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  Chanakya

  Wise   Sweet   Men  

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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.

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  Chanakya

  Family   Son   Tree  

  1742

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

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  Dogen

  Dragons   Tree   Doe  

  1903

• From a withered tree, a flower blooms

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  Gautama Buddha

  Flower   Tree   Withered  

  2345

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

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  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist   Water   Enlightenment  

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

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  Mortimer Adler

  Lost Friendship   Desire   Conjugal  

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

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

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  Martin Luther

  Inspirational   Faith   Hope  

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