Oscar Wilde Quotes, Memories Quotes, Flower Quotes

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

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The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

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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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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

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And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.

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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

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But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

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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

Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

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The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Flower Quotes

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Flower Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.

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