As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.

Como bella flor plena de color y también fragante, las palabras bien dichas dan fruto en aquel que las pone en práctica.

Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

The speech of flowers excels the flowers of speech.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

ephemeral and useless, flowers exemplify the gratuitousness of occasions that mean expenses and luxury; blooming in vases, doomed to a rapid death, flowers are ceremonial bonfires, incense and myrrh, libation, sacrifice.

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Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower
And casually glance
Would scarcely cause one to suspect
The minor Circumstance

Assisting in the Bright Affair
So intricately done
Then offered as a Butterfly
To the Meridian — To pack the Bud — oppose the Worm — Obtain its right of Dew — Adjust the Heat — elude the Wind — Escape the prowling Bee

Great Nature not to disappoint
Awaiting Her that Day — To be a Flower, is profound
Responsibility —

Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.