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“The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.”

“Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.”

“Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.”

Should Children Tree Flower Protect Waste Weapons Resources Our Children Graves Destroying Grandchildren Memorial Memorial Day Children And Grandchildren

Book:Howard Zinn on War

Source: Howard Zinn on War

“Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”

People Ifs Different Success Passion Perfect Focus Flower Waste Compare Pace Wasting Time Chasing Great Success Blooming Flower Don't Waste Time Comparing Yourself Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Suzy Kassem

“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.”

Ifs Way War Whole Young Sides Millions Cutting Generations Sacrifice Youth Flower Waste Destruction Distance Affair Myth Superiors Officials Survivor Meaningless Both Sides Wwi Flanders

Author:Robert Hughes

“A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.”

Source: Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Born Dark Darkness Air Flower Bears Waste Ocean Desert Gray Rays Unseen Sweetness Caves Serene Gems

Author:Thomas Gray

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.”

Born Air Flower Waste Desert Unseen Fragrance

Book:Emma: An Annotated Edition

Source: Emma: An Annotated Edition

“Children, don't waste a single second. Serve others, above all the poor, expecting nothing in return. Just as the person who offers God flowers is the first to enjoy their fragrance, the person who offers compassion is the first to receive its blessing. Wherever a heart beats with compassion: God is there.”

Firsts Heart Children Persons Enjoy Poor Compassion Flower Return Blessing Offers Waste Beats Expecting Fragrance Heart Beat God Is There Expecting Nothing In Return

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew.”

Wind Flower Waste Fairs Breaths Rose Lips Purple Dew Frost Her Beauty Narcissus

Book:The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson

Source: The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Johnson

“Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”