flower of life
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Look at the flower of life as one such metaphor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Indeed, is it not true that whatsoever is most sensuous in connection with human joy, and at the same time pure, is the very flower of life, and therefore the most consummate revelation of holiness?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
It is the flower of life; he who is plunged in artistic contemplation ceases to be an individual; he is the conscious subject, pure, freed from will, from pain, and from time.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Religion, that flower of life, has its root neither in the vague dreams of the rustic, nor in the naked formulas of the philosopher, but in noble, unpretending acts.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
And from the flower of life the bliss deny To bloom together, fade away, and die.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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