"sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out."
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"A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds."
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"Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."
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"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds."
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"The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
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"I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens."
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"Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."
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"I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust"
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"A good garden may have some weeds."
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"A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them."
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"And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude."
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
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"I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think"
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"The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude."
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"I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol."
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"The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man."
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"I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol."
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"I don't do drugs, though. Just weed."
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"Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four of the five remaining 1932 Aston Martins still in road-worthy condition after you'd paid for life's little necessities like hookers and weed, get your medulla oblongata out of your duodenum for a few milliseconds, and make a tackle or two, okay, Babe?"
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"On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed."
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