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«Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.»
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.»
«Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.»
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, natural, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, study
«Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.»
«Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife»
Author: Margaret Fuller
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
prunes, pruning, pruning knife, thrive, watering, watering pot
«Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips...»
«Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.»
«Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability,
Plants
| Keywords:
abilities, at large, bounded, directions, give forth, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, studies
«As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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concentrate, gardener, gardeners, limbs, miscellaneous, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, severe, vigorous
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