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"To freely bloom - that is my definition of success." »Gerry Spence
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"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone." »Oscar Wilde
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"Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there." »Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." »Thich Nhat Hanh
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"If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being -- we can do it." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly." »Henry David Thoreau
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"California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death." »William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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"Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated." »Alexander Osborn
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"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel." »Golda Meir
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"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold." »William Wordsworth
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"The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.*" »Somadeva
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"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time." »Denis Watley
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"By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom." »Omar Khayyam
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"If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds." »Persian
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"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose" »Johann von Goethe
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"Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose." »Richter
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