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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of br

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

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Flowers

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

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Flowers

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. – R. Southwell

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Flowers

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. – Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

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Flowers

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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. Its like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. – Haruki Murakami

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Theres no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
Theres such a thing as keeping
A remembrance in ones heart… – Charlotte Bronte

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Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. – John Muir

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