cultivate one's own garden

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.

There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.

Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'