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Detective fiction1 quote
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893History (play)1 quote
To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily…is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — William Shakespeare · 1616Philosophical literature1 quote
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti · 1970Religious literature1 quote
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. — Jesus · 60Tragedy (play)1 quote
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare · 1597