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thistles
«His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.»
Author: John Leonard
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anecdote, anecdotes, artichoke, artichokes, edible, splendid, thistle, thistles
«A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.»
«If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; / If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: / Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.»
«Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? / Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.»
«YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and clows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice never is heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost! --Polydore Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Archimedes, assassin, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, Cassandra, clover, clovers, delivering, endowing, figs, fulcrum, Golden Age, homer, silken, snore, snores, snoring, The Golden Age, thistle, thistles, whistles
«And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; / Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; / In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.»
«The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
benefactor, destroyer, The Destroyer, thistle, thistles, weeds
