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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, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 1597

“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.” William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” - 1623

“Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 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, “Henry IV, Part 1” - 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, “Venus and Adonis” - 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, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 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, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

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