Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent
Of odours in unhaunted deserts.
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Pharonida (1659), Part II, Book IV.William Chamberlayne
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Flowers rejoice when night is done,
Lift their heads to greet the sun;
Sweetest looks and odours raise,
In a silent hymn of praise.Henry van Dyke
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men — how about "New Car Interior"?
Rita Rudner
O killing north wind, cease!
Come, south wind, that awakenest love!
Blow through my garden,
And let its odours flow,
And the Beloved shall feed among the flowers. ~ 17John of the Cross
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.
Samuel Johnson
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.
James Anthony Froude
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