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