Quotes of Jasmine - somelinesforyou

“ Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines. ”

- Jalaluddin Rumi

“ A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. ”

- James Morris

“ Jasmine is sweet, and has many loves. ”

- Thomas Hood

“ Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. ”

- Henry Timrod

“ 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
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