“The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.”

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

“Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.”

“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”

“Full of great changes
My three and fifty years have been.
I commented on the holy writ - a heavy sin
That echoes to the skies.
Now I will sail on the lake of lotus blooms
And break into the skies within the water.”

“down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms”

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”

“Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.”