“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.”– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Related Quotes “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”– Lao Tzu “My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.”– William Bartram “It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”– Epictetus