Alexander Pope Quotes, Truth Quotes, Flower Quotes

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

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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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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

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As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

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

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

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Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

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We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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Four grey walls, and four grey towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.

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Power is the flower of organization.

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Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

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The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

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The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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