The flowers anew, returning seasons bring, But faded beauty has no second spring
Ambrose Phillips
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The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
AMBROSE PHILIPS The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
AMBROSE PHILIPS Another May new buds and flowers shall bring:
Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?
CHARLOTTE SMITH Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
GERTRUDE STEIN Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.
AMIT RAY Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of...
JOHN KEATS Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossom...
IKKYU SOJUN There is having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is n...
BUDDHA This way we only have one guy out of his normal position. Felipe has been hitting second, and Philli...
JERRY NARRON Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring
RICHARD L. RATLIFF TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
PABLO NERUDA There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of ...
JACQUELINE CAREY No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our hard, stiff lines...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness,
FRANCINE RIVERS I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
THOMAS TUSSER It is not just economic spring returning to the German recovery, it looks like full blown summer has...
DAVID BROWN Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
BISHOP REGINALD HEBER The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL fl...
CRAIG COMPTON I love the arrival of a new season — each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of ...
GIOVANNA FLETCHER The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of t...
BILL VEECK Who created flowers, invented the beauty and happiness.
BRADLEY B. DALINA We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth’s music.
DAVID BROWER The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of...
MAXIM GORKY No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it’s a rebirth of the spirit.
TONI SORENSON The wondrous beauty of the flowers grant pleasure never forgotten
SYLVIA MORGAN No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE This way, people can see every one of our spring flowers.
BENNO DOBBE Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
NORMAN DOUGLAS April showers bring forth May flowers
PROVERB I loved you when love was Spring, and May,
Loved you when summer deepened into June,
and now when au...
V. SACKVILLE-WEST ...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of...
JOHN GEDDES Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o'er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Sav...
LETITIA LANDON Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no ...
AGESILAUS THE SECOND No matter how many snowstorms will pass through you, none will bring you the spring like love will.
SORIN CERIN How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and...
MICHAEL POLLAN Sweet April showers
Do bring May flowers.
THOMAS TUSSER People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.
JENNIFER NIVEN Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
ALICE OSWALD There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
JOSEPH ABBOUD We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It...
DANIEL ABRAHAM Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, sav...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON I'm extremely proud of this group. With 4 of our 5 starters returning next season we feel very good ...
ALLEN PRITCHETT Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
[The...
JOHN DONNE Why different seasons;Nature knows that if man has only one season,he will become bored & easily com...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers
JOHN KEATS Real beauty has no boundaries’.
PRAJAKTA MHADNAK I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Well, Valek, any new promotions?” the Commander asked
“No. But Maren shows promise. Unfortu...
MARIA V. SNYDER Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once posse...
JOHN MILTON The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dr...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade
CHARLES DICKENS But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural.
JANIE ALLEN To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love wi...
GEORGE SANTAYANA A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those tha...
FORREST CURRAN Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all....
SUSIE ORBACH Seeds are hard but they contain in themselves life. Flowers are soft but all around them is death_ t...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferre...
RUE No spring chicken
PROVERB Every year is different. We bring a team back with a lot of returning players and hopefully that wil...
DAVE HEEKE Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
MARC CHAGALL Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI One can only see a flowers true beauty not when its in full bloom but on how it came to be.
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ You want to talk about a matter of inches. No one was more distraught than Ambrose after that game.
CHARLIE WEIS Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It's been wonderful already in these two seasons at Florida. But getting [to the Final Four] would b...
LARRY SHYATT A flower blossoms for its own joy.
OSCAR WILDE Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN This is an honor for coach Phillips. His selection is well-deserved. Coach Phillips does a good job ...
ERNIE HUGHES Glen has done a tremendous job for us over the past three seasons. We feel Glen has put the Wrangler...
CHARLES DAVENPORT A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.
ARAKIDA MORITAKE We've never done anything like this before. Our mission has always been to bring tourism to New York...
CRISTYNE NICHOLAS When Lawrence Phillips was in a boys home growing up, I truly believe he was on the right track, ......
KATHY REDMOND I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but th...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted
and dried,
When the oldest colour...
RUDYARD KIPLING No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face;
Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
G. H. LEWES Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES The key seasons are the key seasons, but there are subtleties within them.
CATHERINE PASCHKEWITZ Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better ...
PEARL CLEAGE Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Jack Broughton was a fighter, the father of boxing. He had a fondness for flowers and his sister nam...
EMMA RICHLER Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them ha...
MARY BALOGH Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace.
KAKUZō OKAKURA They're all faded from all the light we have in here, but I kind of like the color they faded to.
ANGELA CUMMINGS Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring
SARA TEASDALE Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall ...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
AMBROSE BIERCE ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapaci...
AMBROSE BIERCE LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property s...
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