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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo
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"We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah
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"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind." »Abraham Lincoln
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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 legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?" »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower." - Amit Ray from the book "OM Chanting and Meditation" »Amit Ray
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"Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Honey is sweet but bees sting." »French Proverb
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"How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand." »Ovid
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"Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails." »Scottish Proverb
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." »Kenneth Kaunda
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"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." »Walter Savage Landor
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"The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme" »Maitri Upanishads
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"We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey." »Albert E. Cliffe
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"Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses." »Siddha Nagarjuna
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton
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"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." »Georgia O'Keeffe
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"Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan
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"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford
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"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray
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"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower." »J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
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"No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire
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"Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained." »Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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"If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman
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"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." »Hans Christian Anderson
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