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«Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.»
«If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.»
«I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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«I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.»
«He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.»
«LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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«Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.»
«No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival. Turkish Proverb»
«How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.»
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