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A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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A small leak will sink a great ship.

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A small spark makes a great fire.

Annual Beard

Grass.

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A soft answer turneth away wrath.

A hasty marriage seldom proveth well.-Shakespeare.

Use every man after his desert, and who should escape whipping.

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Use time as tho' you knew its value.

Smooth Alpine
Hair Grass.

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A stitch in time saves nine.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.— Fuller.

Usurp not the privileges of another.

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

Barren Fescue

Grass. Festuca Nana.

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A word in season how good it is.

Marriage is the best estate for man in general, and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the marriage state.-Fuller.

Vanity renders beauty contemptible.

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Bear and forbear.

Joy, temperance, and repose

Slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Longfellow.

Virtue, not lineage, is the mark of

nobility.

Smooth-stalked
Meadow Grass.

Poa Umbrosa.

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Cast not pearls before swine.

The leaves of memory seem to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.

Longfellow.

Vows made in storms are forgotten

in calms.

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Denials make little faults great.

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Eat what you can, but pocket none.

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Fair faces need no paint.

Rye Grass.

Lolium Raeemosum.

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