"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

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"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."

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

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon."

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

"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."

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

"For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

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