63 Quotes by Maryrose Wood

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    If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

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    Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

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    Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origin, of divine intelligence? How can we deny that, in some essential way, they are no less than you or I?

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    In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, ‘Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.’

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    Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

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    An open mind lets ideas out, as well as in” -Agatha Swanburne.

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    When things are looking up, there’s no point in looking elsewhere” -Agatha Swanburne.

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    That is the purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture post cards, but to enlarge one’s notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.

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    Complaining doesn’t butter the biscuit” -Agatha Swanburne.

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