Lao Tzu Quotes
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
Omar Khayyam
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
Walter Scott
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
Rabindranath Tagore
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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Loren Eiseley
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It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.
Kirsty Gallacher
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Nick spoke for the first time. "Can I go to the nurse's office too?" Ms. Popplewell looked at him It obviously took her only one look to decide. "No." "I'm traumatized too," Nick claimed, his voice completely flat. "He's a delicate flower," Alan said under his breath.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
Leroy Chiao
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You can go up to the editor of 'Vogue,' and she might think I have horrible style, or maybe she thinks I have great style. Who knows? I don't really know too much about it: I just know what I like and what I don't like. I love clothes and making my own clothes and shoes, like I got to do with Adidas.
Big Sean
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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Lao Tzu
