I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Joseph Addison
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  1. Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. - William Goldman

  2. Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden. - Steve Maraboli

  3. Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care. - Debasish Mridha

  4. Beauty is seeing a flower bloom in a garden or in nature. Artificial is seeing that same flower try and grow in a vase of water. - Anthony T.Hincks

  5. In God's garden even the weeds are beautiful. - Anthony T.Hincks

More Quotes By Joseph Addison
  1. We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in...

  2. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  3. If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  4. Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  5. There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

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