#wilt

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#faster #laurels #nothing #rested #than

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#bird #even #everything #flower #ocean

If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#flower #flowers #humor #sadness #wilt

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? ↗

— John James Audubon

#any #degree #delusive #further #hope

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bubble #dig #ever #fountain #good

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. ↗

— Aristotle

#every #fancies #find #last #life

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #give #last #life #relief

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#begin #finished #half #remain #still

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#keeping #labour #plot #power #prize

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ↗

— Epicurus

#away #desires #happy #his #make