Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Smell Quotes

PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.

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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

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When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

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When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

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The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

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Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

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A very ancient and fish-like smell.

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The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

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There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

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There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

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