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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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"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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"The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm vine Man.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the vine to Spouse.
For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but - Wine." »from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
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"Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring." »Andrew Schneider
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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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"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford
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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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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo
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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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"Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan
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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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"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." »Hans Christian Anderson
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"No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire
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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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"Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again." »John Lennon
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"He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower." »Mary Howitt
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"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it." »Jess Lair
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"When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." »Jean Giraudoux
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"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it." »Jesse Lair
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"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." »William Wordsworth
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"No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony." »Isadora Duncan, The Sensational Life of Isadora Duncan
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