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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 · 60