Best Thorn Quotes
151 Thorn quotes by 111 unique authors
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a…
— Isak Dinesen
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I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
— Rumi
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to…
— Pablo Neruda
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My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my…
— George Matheson
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...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself,…
— Elif Safak
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Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart…
— Chanakya
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the…
— Shams Tabrizi
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Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came…
— Rumi
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Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its…
— Sholem Asch
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
— Maya Angelou
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Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed…
— Max Lucado
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A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
— Adrian Rogers
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White dew- one drop on each thorn
— Yosa Buson
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A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has…
— Swami Vivekananda
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He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.
— Marjorie M. Liu
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A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few…
— Edward Thomas
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I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen…
— Gabriela Mistral
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God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water,…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains…
— Jan Karon
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I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn…
— Gabrielle Anwar
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