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Letter "B" » budding
«Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
budded, budding, buds, gather, spare, The Flowers
«And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.»
«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
«For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.»
Author: Bible
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bud, budded, budding, meal, reap, sown, stalk, stalked, stalking, stalks, swallow, The Strangers, The Whirlwind, whirlwinds
«It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .»
«Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Conscience,
Growth
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bud, budded, budding, circulation, detect, detects, registered, registering, registers, sap, saps, The Register
«Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and»
«All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.»
«Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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bud, budded, budding, canker, cankers, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, faults, fountains, loathsome, moon, mud, roses, silver, silvering, stain, stains, sun, sun rose, sweetest, thorns
«Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.»
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