William Wordsworth Quotes, Lying Quotes, Flower Quotes

The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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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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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Crush Quotes , Flower Quotes

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

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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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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Horse Quotes , Flower Quotes

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Flower Quotes , Wind Quotes

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Paradise On Earth Quotes

The very flowers are sacred to the poor.

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

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The nature of this flower is to bloom.

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Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Summer Quotes , Flower Quotes

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Dark Quotes

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Dark Quotes

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Flower Quotes

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Rain Quotes , Flower Quotes