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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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"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman." »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1
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"Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like thy sword in thy scabbard; if vented, the sword is in another?s hand.* If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue." »Francis Quarles
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"The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton
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"The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes
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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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"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford
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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo
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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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"Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan
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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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"Better the foot slip than the tongue." »French Proverb
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"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue." »Dolly Payne Todd Madison
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!"" »John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb
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"Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been." »John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." »American Indian Proverb
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"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier
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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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"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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"It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." »Greek Proverb
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