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• Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

  Delano Johnson

  Adventure, White, Feet

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• I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wish, Trophies, Form

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• I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By cool Siloam's shady rill
  How sweet the lily grows!
  How sweet the breath beneath the hill
  Of Sharon's dewy rose!

  Richard Heber

  Sweet, Flower, Rose

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Flower, Twilight, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Roots, Dew

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  Gavin Douglas

  Time, Spring, Ambition

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• Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Purple, Prophet, Breaths

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.279

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• When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Heart, People, Water

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• My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

  Larry Towell

  Tired, Years, Wife

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

  Ari Shapiro

  Artist, Garden, Water Lily

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

  Kalidasa

  Song, Flower, Moving

  Kālidāsa (1928). “Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works”

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Cheer

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Rose, May, Good Husband

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• It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

  Aldo Leopold

  Golden, Wilderness, Certain

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.141, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

  Tracey Ullman

  Carols, Late

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• The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

  James Hogg

  Sweet, Rose, Bud

  James Hogg (1866). “The works of the Ettrick shepherd”, p.430

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• When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

  Leslie Caron

  Careers, Would Be, Film

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• By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows!

  Reginald Heber

  Sweet, Shady, Grows

  1812 In the Christian Observer, Apr.

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• He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. She had made her g's the same way he did : he searched through the letter for every one of them, and each felt like a friendly little wave glimpsed from behind a veil. The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, Hands, Friendly

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• In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
  With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
  As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
  While God is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Freedom, Men, Sea

  "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 25 (1862)

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• I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Water Lily

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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