In garden arrangement, as in ...

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
 Gertrude Jekyll

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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 Seneca the Younger
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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 Sigmund Freud
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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 Winston Churchill
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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 Abraham Lincoln
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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 Winston Churchill

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The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.
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 Gertrude Jekyll