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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

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I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right. ↗

— David Hobson

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I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it. ↗

— David Hobson

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