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A morning-glory at my window
satisfies me
more than
the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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To
analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music;
it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy
than to attempt to understand.
Henry T.
Tuckerman |
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For the Infinite has sowed his name in the
heavens in burning stars,
but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender flowers.
Jean Paul Richter |
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Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joy, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth |
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What a desolate place would be a world without
flowers. It would be
a face without a smile, a feast without
a welcome.
Are not flowers the stars of the earth?
And
are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
Clara Balfour
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Flowers and fruits are always fit
presents,--flowers,
because they are a proud assertion that a ray
of beauty
outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers.
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If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a
flower;
what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
Johann von Schiller
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;
they toil not,
neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you that
even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Jesus of Nazareth
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And 'tis my faith that every flower
enjoys the air it breathes.
William Wordsworth
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The flower that follows the sun does so even in
cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
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There is not the least flower but seems to hold up
its head,
and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense
of the
goodness of its Heavenly Maker.
Robert South
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If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that
person
should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus,
because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.
Mohammed |
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The amen of Nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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As I hold the
flower
in my hand and
think of trying
to
describe it, I realize
how poor a creature
I am, how impotent
are words in the
presence of
such perfection.
Celia Thaxter
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Flowers
are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul
into.
Henry
Beecher
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| In joy or
sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Kozuko Okakura |
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| Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers
feed also the soul.
The Koran |
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People from a planet without flowers would
think
we must be mad with joy the whole time
to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch |
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my
neck.
Emma Goldman
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I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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Flowers
have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.
Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive
and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright,
like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
Henry
Ward Beecher |
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When
we look deeply into
the heart of a flower, we
see clouds,
sunshine,
minerals, time, the earth,
and everything else
in the cosmos in it.
Without clouds there
could be no rain,
and without rain
there would be no flower.
Thich
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