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Letter "A" » acorn
«The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.»
«The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.»
«Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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«Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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acorn, acorns, burying ground, concentrated, explodes
«Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you alone, yourself and nameless? But you are young and I am old. Eldest, that's what I am. Mark my words, my friends: Tom was here before the river and the trees; Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn. He made paths before the Big People, and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When the Elves passed westward, Tom was here already, before the seas were bent. He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
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«Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes»
«Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in awhile»
«The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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acorn, acorns, forests, The Creation
«Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acorn, acorns, completion, fullness, oak
«You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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acorn, acorns, bead, hindering, knot, maid
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