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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Beecher

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Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy"   Robert G.  Ingersoll

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Earth laughs in flowers -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Amen! of Nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Where flowers bloom so does hope - Lady Bird Johnson

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Each flower is a soul opening out to nature - Gerald De Nerval

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I didn't know the names of the flowers – now my garden is gone   Allen Ginsberg

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. William Carlos Williams

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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman

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Flowers are love's truest language.    Park Benjamin

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Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.   Chinese proverb

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More than anything, I must have flowers always, always. Claude Monet

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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.   Indian Proverb

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True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.   Evelyn Loeb

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In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. Kozuko Okakura

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If you pass by the color purple in a field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off.    Alice Walker

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The flowers take the tears of weepimg night and give them to the sun for day’s delight Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.

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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat  - Beverly Nichols

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There are always flowers for those who want to see

them. Henri Matisse

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.  Walt Whitman

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.  Ralph Waldo Emerson,

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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.  - Heinrich Heine

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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.  Basho

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.   Claude Monet

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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.  John Ruskin

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With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring, And asters purple asterisks for autumn. Conrad Aiken

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Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower. William Allingham

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.  Walt Whitman

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Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.  The Koran

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Flowers really do intoxicate me. Vita Sackville-West

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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? Maurice Maeterlinck

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From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. Greek Proverb

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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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Lone and erect, beneath light's primal flood,A lily!  and pure as any one of you.   Mallarme

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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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Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...  Susan Polis Shutz

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Simply trust: Do not the petals flutter down, Just like this? - Issa

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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. Heinrich Heine

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Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and siting in the shade.    Rudyard Kipling

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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.    Lope de Vega

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I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.-  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.    Albert Schweitzer

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None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.   Forbes Watson

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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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He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb

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When bright flowers bloom Parchment crumbles, my words fade The pen has dropped ...  Morpheus

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Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.   Goethe

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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.    John Lancaster Spalding

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Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is.   Tennyson

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Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.    John Keats

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The old tree is shook White blossoms slowly float downDancers in the wind    Alexandra Kim

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Wildflowers don't care where they grow. Dolly Parton

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In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.    Issa

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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.   Henry David Thoreau

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Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.   Chinese proverb

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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.   Indian Proverb