Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Children Quotes, Flower Quotes

Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Life Quotes , Flower Quotes

When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Summer Quotes , Flower Quotes

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Flower Quotes , Color Quotes

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

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For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after many a year had come and gone, the berries growing there, were still believed to leave too deep a stain upon the hand that plucked them.

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We have much to hope from the flowers.

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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Flower Quotes

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Lying Quotes , Flower Quotes

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

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