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Pluck Quotes

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.

Kathie Lee Gifford (2009). “Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg”, p.152, Ballantine Books

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.216, Bantam Classics

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226

Sin will pluck on sin.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437