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Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

William Shakespeare

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

Roses fall, but the thorns remain.

Dutch Proverb

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

William Penn

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

A lot of our tips we don't even pay money out because it's just good citizens. They just want these thorns out of their neighborhoods.

Bob Noyes

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Dr. Richard Selzer

I had to drag the cross down the street with a crown of thorns on my head.

Jeff Neary

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

Kahlil Gibran

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah

The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Rumer Godden

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

Isaac Hayes

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key