Date: 1611

"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life"

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

The soul may "be as a watered garden"

— Author Unknown

Date: 1694

"For as dung and good manuring restores ground that is worn and heartless," so does a good diet restore the faint heart, the weak spirit, and cold, dry genitals

— Aristotle [pseud.]

Date: 1694

The body may be resurrected like "Grain thrown into the Ground" that continues there "for a season, as if lost and dead, but when warmth and moisture gives it force, it springs up, and bears a hundred-fold" in the "Resurrection of the Spring."

— Aristotle [pseud.]