Cultivate

Famous quotes containing the word cultivate:

“We must cultivate our garden.
Furia to God one day in seven allots;
The other six to scandal she devotes.
Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“To cultivate one’s heart, nothing is better than curbing one’s desires.”
—Chinese proverb.

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“My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)