flower of life
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Look at the flower of life as one such metaphor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether�nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
More gladness have I, herewithin, Of flower of life, and noble name, Than all men in the world might win, Who thought their righteous deeds to name.
From The Pearl by Jewett, Sophie
Smooth is the way to ease and calm delight, And soft the road Sloth chooseth for her own; But he who craves the flower of life full-blown, Must struggle up in all his armor dight!
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
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 Croce, Benedetto
