We've found 15 quotes for 'lily of the valley' (0.116 seconds):
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"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. the BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible
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"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
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"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere." »W. H. Auden
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"A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)" »Adam Smith
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"Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth." »Delores Seats
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"the road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." »Joseph J. Lamb
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"the lake no longer water holds? Off fly the fowls, the lilies stay: If friends are friends when wealth is gone, the lily?s constancy they share." »Hindu Poetess
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"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
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"Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." »Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
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"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
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"True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain." »Richard Nixon
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"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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"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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"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition." »Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
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