Cherry Blossoms

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter?

-- Kotomichi

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Tulips

"Dutch tulips from their beds
Flaunted their stately heads."

-- James Montgomery

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Gossip

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. "

-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Explore

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

-- Mark Twain

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Luck

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”

-- Euripides

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Greece

"Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!"

-- George Gordon, Lord Byron

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The Door

"Every wall is a door."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Candlelight

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit.”

-- Robert Shaffer

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Sunflower

“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light."

-- Eugenio Montale

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Jumping Dog

"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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London

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

-- Samuel Johnson

Illustration: London: Northumberland House, by Canaletto, 1752, public domain

Fishing

"The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad."

-- A. K. Best

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The Grand Canal

"White phantom city, whose untrodden streets
Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting
Shadows of palaces and strips of sk..."

- H. W. Longfellow, Venice

Illustration: The Grand Canal, J. M. W. Turner, c. 1835, public domain

Spring Crocus

"Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire."
-- Virgil

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Timepiece

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of."
-- Benjamin Franklin

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The Dragonfly

"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky."
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon

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The Cat

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain

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Ferris Wheel

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."
-- E. B. White

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Tigh Mor

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

--Robert Burns



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the Wearin' o' the Green

"Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland -- here's a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!"
-- Author Unknown

Photo by Jon Sullivan, PDPhoto.org, Public Domain