The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
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