"Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower."

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Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

William Allingham

#Flower Quotes #Pluck Quotes #Traveler Quotes

“It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops”
“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”
“We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.”

Source : Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.209, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.”

Source : Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press
“Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.”
“If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.”
“On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.”

Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.22
“I'm interested in social commentary.”

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