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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Love, Heart

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

Single, Friend, Rose

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

Love, Beautiful, May

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

Nature, Today, Human

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

Earth, Culture, Occupation

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything, Library

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

Beautiful, Enough, Bottom

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, True, Human

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

Work, Put, Rest

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins

Respect, May, Agnostic

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Care, Eyes, Themselves

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman

Beautiful, Sunrise, Give

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
Jim Carrey

Good, Beautiful, Remember

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Ugly, Mountain

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry

Experience, Insult, Once

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness, Boring, Maybe

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
Sylvia Browne

Fear, Mind, Keep

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
Alice Walker

Mother, Found, Search

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

Good, May, Weeds

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

God, Human, Indeed

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

Freedom, Patriotism, Passion

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gertrude Jekyll

Trust, Patience, Teacher

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire

Book, Company, Party

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

Give, Value, Full

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
David Herbert Lawrence

End, Real, Morality

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William Cowper

Loves, Greenhouse

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