Gautama Buddha Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Flower Quotes

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

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We have much to hope from the flowers.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Flower Quotes , Plant Quotes

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Lying Quotes , Flower Quotes

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

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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

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Horse Quotes , Flower Quotes

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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From a withered tree, a flower blooms

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The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

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Tags : Matthew Henry Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Flower Quotes

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

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

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Flower Quotes , Pride 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

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Flower Quotes , Rose Quotes

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Flower Quotes , Cutting Quotes

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

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

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Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

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