A Quote by Andrew Marvell

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Andrew Marvell

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Buds Flowers Gather Spare

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Andrew Marvell
English - Writer
March 31, 1621 - August 16, 1678

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Barbara Johnson

Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

Walt Whitman

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

Rabindranath Tagore

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Virginia Woolf

I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

Mariah Carey

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

William Golding

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

Rajneesh

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps, Unkissed of the sunshine, unbaptized of showers, With buds scarcely swelled, which should burst into flowers!

John Greenleaf Whittier

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Sophie Swetchine

I hardly have any spare time! But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.

Soundarya

His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

William Shakespeare

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Grantland Rice

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Gerald Massey

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road, no street, no t' other side the way, . . . . . . No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.

Thomas Hood

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

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