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How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.
Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.
The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.
When it's time for the flowers to bloom, they'll bloom.When it's time for spring to come, it'll come.
The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers..." I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.
It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.
Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.
My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.
If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.
Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy, just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.