Dante Alighieri Quotes, Summer Quotes, Flower Quotes

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

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Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

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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

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

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As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

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The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

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People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

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[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

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Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

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A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Love You Quotes , Flower Quotes