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- The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
- I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the… — Edwin Way Teale
- What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. — James Thomas Fields
- [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese… — William Halsey
- A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick — John Arlott
- Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder… — Damon Knight
- I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb… — Kingsley Amis
- Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow… — Mary Howitt
- All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and… — Abraham Lincoln
- I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower… — Abraham Lincoln
- Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
- A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?"… — Gabriela Mistral