OAK

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1. The oak grows silently, in the forest, a thousand years; only in the thousandth year, when the woodman arrives with his axe is there heard an echoing through the solitudes; and the oak announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls.—CARLYLE, The French Revolution
   

2. Heart of oak.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. The oak, when living, monarch of the wood;
   The English oak, which, dead, com­mands the flood.—CHARLES CHURCHILL, Gotham
   

4. The talking oak to the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me.—CAROLYN DAVIES, Be Different to Trees
   

5. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees,
   Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
   Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.—DRYDEN, Palamon and Arcite

6. Every oak must be an acorn.—EDWARD FITZGERALD, Polonius
   

7. Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.—THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
   

8. An oak whose antique root peeps out.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It