"Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do."

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Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.228

Edmund Waller

#Flower Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.”
“West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment”
“Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.”

Source : "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.
“'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.”
“The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.”

Source : Keith Carter (2008). “A Certain Alchemy”
“Little boys have amazing minds.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2009). “The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.78, Penguin
“His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.”

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