Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Life Quotes, Flower Quotes

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Flower Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Dark Quotes

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Flower Quotes , Fall Quotes

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.

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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

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Tags : Catullus Quotes , Girl Quotes , Flower Quotes

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flower Quotes , Purple Quotes

Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Father Quotes , Flower Quotes

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Flower Quotes , Home Quotes

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

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The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

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I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Flower Quotes , Exercise Quotes

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Flower Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

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The greed for fruit misses the flower.

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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Drama Quotes , Flower Quotes

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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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Flower Quotes

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

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