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“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
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“Romeo and Juliet”
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1597
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
William Shakespeare
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“Henry IV, Part 1”
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1597
“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.”
William Shakespeare
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“Richard III”
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1597
“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.”
William Shakespeare
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“Cymbeline”
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1623
“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“This Side of Paradise”
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1920
“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
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“Henry IV, Part 1”
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1597
“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
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“Venus and Adonis”
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1593
“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
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“Anna Karenina”
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1877
“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.”
Jules Verne
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“Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”
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1870
“The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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“The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”
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1858
“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
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“Tao of Jeet Kune Do”
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1975
“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
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“The Little Prince”
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1943
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This Side of Paradise
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Anna Karenina
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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The Little Prince
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Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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