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

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

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

"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!"
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"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years."

"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"
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