Quotes with flower

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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Generosity is the flower of justice.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alan Bennett If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Alice Walker It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Swami Ramdas Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Dhammapada Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Flower A. Newhouse Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Victor Hugo Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Victor Hugo Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Buddha Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • John Lennon Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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