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«Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?»
«Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, together with real dangers to the whole»
Author: Oliver Cromwell
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briar, briars, discontentment, division, nettle, nettled, nettles, thriven, weeds
«Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.»
«The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible»
Author: Washington Irving
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Literature
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briar, briars, fades, fairy, landscapes, nearer, thorns
«What will come from the briar but the berry.»
«Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar»
«'A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?'»
«And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires.»
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