"Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind,……" — James Clavell
"Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?"
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James Clavell
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31 Quotes by James Clavell
James Clavell has 31 quotes on this site.
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It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.
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Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
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How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable…
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Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own…
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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
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All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
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Christ, it's so good to be alive.
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You've committed murder just as much as Hélène did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a…
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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change…
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The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
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Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome…
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More Blossom Quotes
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
— Mayim Bialik
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in…
— William C. Bryant
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The first pale blossom of the unripened year.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth
— Gerald Massey
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like…
— Thomas Malory
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Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of…
— Varahamihira
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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
— William C. Bryant
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