Paulo Coelho Quotes, Flower Quotes, Bud Quotes

A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing — a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Flower Quotes , Wine Quotes

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

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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Flower and thorn are in the same stem.

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Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

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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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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Life Quotes , Flower Quotes

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Flower Quotes , Men Quotes

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Color White Quotes

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

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Tags : Alan Furst Quotes , Flower Quotes , Know How Quotes

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Flower Quotes

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Stars Quotes , Flower Quotes

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

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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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Tags : Alan Coren Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Flower Quotes

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Flower Quotes , Wind Quotes

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Stars Quotes , Flower Quotes

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Flower Quotes , Simple Quotes

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Flower Quotes