"Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen."

-- Christian Konrad Sprengel

#Flower Quotes #Should Quotes #Pollen Quotes

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

Source : George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.158
“It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

Source : Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.”
“O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.”
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”

Source : 1899 The Awakening, ch.6.
“You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.”
“The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.”

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