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Vita Sackville-West has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to…
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower…
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all…
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is…
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather…
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children…
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…
— Vita Sackville-West
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
— John Ruskin
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,…
— John Donne
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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
— Thomas Otway
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by…
— Henry David Thoreau
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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