Thorns Quotes
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
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Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Charles Fourier
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
Rumi
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Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
Douglas Jerrold
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
Hal Borland
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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
Rumi
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
Gautama Buddha
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
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He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!
Adolf Hitler
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Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.
Gemma Galgani
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Olga Broumas