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Rose Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in…
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall…
- Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
- The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated…
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- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie
- More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose… — Cecil Beaton
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
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- What I learned most from my father wasn't anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work… — Jeff Bridges
- But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. — Anne Bronte
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- All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. — Robert Browning
- In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — Warren Buffett