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Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Wells
Somerset
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge
Elisabeth Goudge
Nothing
Flower
Falls
Done
Dead
Puts
Thing
Mistake
Flowers
Think
Fall
Seeds
Thinking
Next
Forth
Like
Earth
Leaves
World
May
Finished
Ever
Spring
Seed

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