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“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are abloom with flowers.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branches or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving itself.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.” William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
“hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.” William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

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