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«'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: bent, forms, inclined, Tis, twig, twigs
«A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.»
«I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.»
«A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.»
Author: Tecumseh Shawnee Chief | Keywords: bundle, twig, twigs
«There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.»
«The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.»
«When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: twig, twigs, twist
«First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.»