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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
- Virginia Woolf
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.
- Margaret Fuller
Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!
- Joshua Harris
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
- Erica Jong
Is love the sweetness of flowers?
- Helen Keller
At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
- Marianne Williamson
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
- Samuel Rutherford
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom. He
- Margaret Atwood
There, now, father, you won't work in it till it's all easy, said Eppie, and you and me can mark out the beds, and make holes and plant the roots. It'll be a deal livelier at the Stone-pits when we've got some flowers, for I always think the flowers can see us and know what we're talking about. And I'll have a bit o' rosemary, and bergamot, and thyme, because they're so sweet-smelling; but there's no lavender only in the gentlefolks' gardens, I think.
- George Eliot
It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle