The Cottage on the Corner: All These Things

All These Things

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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

~ Saki

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When the heart aches for beauty, there are cherry blossoms to ease and soothe.

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Pansies for Tea

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"And there is pansies, that's for thoughts."

~ William Shakespeare"

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When all at once I saw a crowd

A host of golden daffodils.

~ William Wordsworth

228 The Stolen Child

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild,

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping

than you can understand.

~ William Butler Yeats

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Light tomorrow with today.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Things go better with coke...even a rose.

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With a purple striped swirl she greeted the world, ready to open and bloom.

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"O for a horse with wings."

~William Shakespeare

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Find your passion and fan it into a frenzy

until it becomes your life.

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"All that you do, do with your might. Things done by half are never done right."

~From my grandmother to my mother, to me to you

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"Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless,

seems to flow."

~ George F. Will

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Pink carnations in any language add sweet elegance and to those

that say, "filler flower," I say beauitufl.

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"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow."

~ Wassily Kandinsky

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"Seize the moment." Said Erma Bombeck, "Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart."

Have a Girl Scout cookie!

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These Hands

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"There are secrets we still have left to find. There have been mysteries from the beginning of time. There are answers were not wise enough to see."

~ The Riddle by John Ondrasik, singer, song writer

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Return to Sender

(Homework for Kim Klassen's Photoshop Skinny-Mini eCourse)

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"Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are." said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Just call me cupcake, 'cuz that's who I am and that's what I eat.

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"You can leave your hat on..."

~ Randy Newman, song and lyric writer

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"When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile."

~ Anne Bryn

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"There's a certain slant of light on winter afternoons."

~ Emily Dickinson

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La Dolce Vita

(The Sweet Life)

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"You agree--I'm sure you agree, that beauty is the only thing worth living for."

~ Agatha Christie

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"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."

~ John Rushkin

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"The best and most wonderful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

~ Helen Keller

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Every morning the sunrises and the heart opens

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"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful."

~Vincent Van Gogh

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"The things a child loves remains in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing is that our souls remain over those places we once enjoyed."

~Kahlil Gibran

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"Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?"

~ Homer Simpson

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"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

~ Martin Buber

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"Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves." ~ Anais Nin

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He breaks hearts with

long black lashes whispering against pink cheeks.

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"The world is but a canvas to imagination."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness."

~ D. H. Lawrence