Best Lilies Quotes
186 Lilies quotes by 138 unique authors
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So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
— William Shakespeare
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I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I…
— Richard Aldington
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Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to…
— Wendell Berry
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
— Tom Robbins
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We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.
— Tori Amos
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the…
— Ramakrishna
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The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!
— Rumi
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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering…
— Anne Sexton
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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw…
— William Shakespeare
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The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the…
— Oswald Chambers
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The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field…
— Wendell Berry
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Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive…
— Khalil Gibran
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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners…
— Gian Carlo Menotti
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If a man has only correct doctrine to offer me, I am sure to slip out at the first intermission to seek the company of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."
— Lewis Carroll
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Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees .…
— Hilda Doolittle
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.
— Delano Johnson
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I love Beyonce. She's so fierce. I also love Lily Allen, and she was an influence on my music.
— Bridgit Mendler
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