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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
Charles H. Spurgeon

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symbols… old post

Snail – a symbol of a house. Symbol of the persistence, and persistence, it’s helping to finish your work successful.« When you are on a dangerous way, move ahead slowly but wright ». The snail became a symbol of cyclic processes, for example, revival and revival, and in painting of icons aztecs – fertility. It [...]

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a house is but a home… another old one

William Cowper, “Snail” (1731)

To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall, the snail sticks close, nor fears to fall, as if he grew there, house and all together.
Within that house secure he hides, when danger imminent betides of storm, or other harm besides of weather.
Give but his horns the slightest touch, his self-collecting power is [...]

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