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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."
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"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
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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."
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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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"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."
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"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."
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"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"
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"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
Education

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
Beauty

"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
Man

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
Strength

"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
Mind

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
Experience

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."
Time

"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
Time

"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."
Emotional

"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent."
Art
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