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Flowers Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse…
- No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his…
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- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
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- The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the… — Joseph Addison
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher