Thorns Quotes
261 quotes by 213 authors
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The only rose without thorns is friendship.
— Madeleine de Scudery
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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails…
— Martin Luther
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Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great…
— Laozi
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for…
— Pope Gregory I
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
— Aberjhani
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The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.
— Joseph Simmons
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
— Orison Swett Marden
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and…
— Samuel Rutherford
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
— Ellen Key
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Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice;…
— John Bunyan
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There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring,…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when…
— Gemma Galgani
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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…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.
— Rajneesh
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and…
— Hal Borland
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A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not…
— Martin Luther
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This earth is not our home. We are away at school, trying to master the lessons of "the great plan of happiness" so we can…
— Bruce C. Hafen
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength I will always…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was…
— Lana Turner
Who Wrote These Thorns Quotes
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