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Letter "A" » acorns
«Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.»
«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.»
«When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze»
«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
«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)
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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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