"It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity."
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"The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose."
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"But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth."
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"Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell."
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"It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound."
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"During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown.""
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"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run."
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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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"He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you."
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"We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow."
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"But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower."
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"One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt."
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"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
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"But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear."
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"I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers."
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"The sweetest flower that blows, I give you as we part. For you it is a Rose, For me it is my heart."
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"The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated."
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"Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned."
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"Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."
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