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Oak . A little man fells a tall oak. - Petit homme abat grand chêne {French. Proverb.}
Oak . Go, shake some other oak (of its fruit). - Aliam excute quercum {Proverb.}
Oak . It's hard to take the twist out of an oak that grew in the sapling. {Gaelic.}
Oak . Man is the circled oak, woman the ivy. {Aaron Hill.}
Oak . Not a man of iron, but of live oak. {Garfield.}
Oak . Not in cold marble stones, not in temples damp and dead, but in fresh oak-groves weaves and rustles the German God. - Nicht in kalten Marmorsteinen, / Nicht in Tempeln dumpf und tot, / In den frischen Eichenhainen / Webt und rauscht der deutsche Gott {Uhland.}
Oak . Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. {Wendell Phillips.}
Oak . That man had oak and triple brass around his breast who first intrusted his frail bark to the savage sea. - Illi robur et æs triplex / Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci / Commisit pelago ratem / Primus {Horace.}
Oak . The oak first announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls. {Carlyle.}
Oak . The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. {Scott.}
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