Immanuel Kant Quotes, Flower Quotes, Science Quotes

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

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Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Flower Quotes , Wells Quotes

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Flower Quotes

Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Children Quotes , Flower Quotes

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Flower Quotes , Angel Quotes

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

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Tags : A. E. Hotchner Quotes , Flower Quotes , Writing Quotes

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Lying Quotes , Flower Quotes

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

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Flower Quotes , Years Quotes

The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

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Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Flower Quotes , Blue Quotes

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

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Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Running Quotes , Flower Quotes

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flower Quotes , Eye Quotes

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Flower Quotes , Mrs Dalloway Quotes

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. . . .

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Flower Quotes

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Flower Quotes

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Flower Quotes

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Nature Quotes , Flower Quotes

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Flower Quotes , Names Quotes