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Letter "P" » pruning
«Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.»
Author: John Trapp | Keywords: cut up, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning
«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»
«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»
«For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.»
«Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips...»
«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.»
«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»

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