"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

Flowers, Joy, Sun, Trees

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

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"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."

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Lucretius, Roman Poet

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"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

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"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

Nicholas Culpeper, English Scientist

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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

Ray Davies, English Musician

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"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

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