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

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

Other quotes by John Ruskin

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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architecture
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John Ruskin
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. – Andrew Mason

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Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink… – Rupert Brooke

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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch. – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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

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