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Hyacinth

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“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.
“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”
— Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148.
“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
— Book EX, line 278.
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth, Sonnet. Not Love, Not War, Nor, etc.
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
— Robert Burns, The Chevalier's Lament.
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
— Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

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“Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.”
— Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234.
“Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.”
— Napoleon, as quoted in The table talk and opinions of Napoleon Buonaparte (1868), p. 148.
“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
— Book EX, line 278.
“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
— William Wordsworth, Sonnet. Not Love, Not War, Nor, etc.
“And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.”
— Robert Burns, The Chevalier's Lament.
“Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.”
— Jeremy Taylor, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 397.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.