In some Places, as in Amsterdam, the Foundation costs more than the Superstructure, for the Ground being soft, they are constrained to ram in huge stakes of Timber (with Wool about it to preserve it from Putrefaction) till they come to a firm Basis;
– Lord Rama
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- Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- True humility the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. — Edmund Burke
- Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her. – Leonardo De Vinci
- That guy has muscles in places most people don’t have places. – Bucky Waters
- An Indian’s dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up. – George Catlin
- When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves – Welcome wool sweaters. – B. Cybrill
- And some places you been before are so great that you don’t ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don’t ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter. – Morgan Freeman
- Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest timber’d oak. – William Shakespeare
- Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. – Anonymous
- Good timber does not grow with ease the strong The wind the stronger the trees -Thomas S.Monson