Thorns Quotes
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The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.
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I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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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?
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Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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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.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
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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.
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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.
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He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!
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Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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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.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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Look at this tangle of thorns.
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I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
