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“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

Firsts Earth Wish Sea Flower Thee Glorious Gems

Author:Charles Lamb

“If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”

Ifs Light Wish Sun Rights Tree Flower Forests Trust In God Perfume Commitment To God

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.”

Made Said Light Eye Wish Born Dark Sky Effects Color Flower Clouds Casts Noble Steadfast Pluck Abode Light Dark Dark Colors

Book:John Constable's Correspondence

Source: John Constable's Correspondence

“I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.”

Giving Art Whole Problem Beautiful Wish Subjects Changed Flower Give Me Paint Resolve Sensations

Author:Georges Vantongerloo

“I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please; which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.”

Littles Long I Can Remember Lost Wish Pleasure Rooms Feet Youth Flower Please Findings Raises Melancholy Toys

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Southey, LL. D. (later Poet Laureate.)

“Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.”

Mind May Littles Ideas Language Wish Flower Bears Greek Soil Manure

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.”

Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

“I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.”

Care Wish Grows Tears Flower Sorrow Laughter Illusion And Love Growing Old Ecstatic Respite Love And Laughter Music And Love

Book:A Village Ophelia

Source: A Village Ophelia

“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.”

World Littles Wish Advice Judging Flower Garden Window Plant Patterns Boxes Do Not Judge

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg