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flower boys men
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. C. S. Lewis
flower eden rose
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty. Charlotte Bronte
flower night ice
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
flower hands wish
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
flower excellence progress
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. Charles Sumner
flower men he-man
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it. Charles Dudley Warner
flower memorable thinking
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens
flower sleep eye
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
flower thinking may
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Charles Caleb Colton
simplicity quality enthusiasm
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. Agnes Repplier
simplicity approach
Simplicity of approach is always best. Charlie Chaplin
simplicity achieve difficult
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
simplicity mind states
Simplicity is a state of mind. Charles Wagner
simplicity action tendencies
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. Brian Weiss
simplicity complexity grows
Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity. Brian Eno
simplicity complexity optimal
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity David Allen
simplicity consistency complicated
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. Jared Diamond
simplicity poverty
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. Alan Watts
crowns bears different
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. Juvenal
crowns bears different
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
crowns crime crosses
One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.
crowns want thorns
You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross. Charles Spurgeon
crowns renown fine
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. William Shakespeare
crowns muse virtue
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it. Elizabeth Montagu
crowns royalty foreheads
Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
crowns brightness thorns
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
crowns
There are no crown princes at Ford, Edsel Ford