“ Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord! ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. ”
- Elizabeth Lawrence- Copy
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“ Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
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“ What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold 'precious,' and earth and soil 'base'? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit… ”
- Galileo Galilei- Copy
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