Quotes with lilies

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• But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

  ― Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  ― Elisabeth Gaskell
  British writer (1810 - 1865)
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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• We may talk what we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

  ― Carlos Santana
  Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• expensive
• beautiful
• spiritual
• peacocks
• instance
• heraldry

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