Pruning quotes
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There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.
-- Alan Watts -
The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.
-- David Jeremiah -
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
-- Henry Cloud -
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.
-- James Boswell -
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The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm
-- Kevin DeYoung -
The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.
-- Menno Simons -
How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldn’t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
-- William Shenstone -
People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.
-- Young-Ha Kim -
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
-- Austin O'Malley -
A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.
-- Andrew Wiggins -
