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"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. the BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." »Chinese Proverb
"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere." »W. H. Auden
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith
"Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth." »Delores Seats
"the greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain." »Richard Milhous Nixon
"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be." »Benjamin Johnson
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