"But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize…" — John Bunyan
"But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower"
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John Bunyan
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161 Quotes by John Bunyan
John Bunyan has 161 quotes on this site.
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper…
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
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Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were…
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance…
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Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side…
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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not…
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It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart…
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We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray,…
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it…
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
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True love stories never have endings.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have…
— Honore de Balzac
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
— Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
— Honore de Balzac
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
— Edward Abbey
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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
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