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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
Life
Power
Other
Our
Thorns
Through
Misfortunes
Remedy
Longer
Know
Greater
Pass
Quickly
Than
Sown
Dwell
Them
Us
Harm
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau
Thorns
About
Truths
Them
Roses
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran
Motivational
Life
Fear
Path
Thorns
Perfection
Sharp
Toward
Go
Stones
Move
Forward
March
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope Francis
Life
God
Good
You
Trust
Space
Thorns
Seed
Weeds
Although
Always
Person
Which
Land
Full
Grow
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes
You
Rose
Enjoy
Fragrance
Thorns
Must
Bears
Accept
Which
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Rabindranath Tagore
Gardening
Envy
Single
Flower
Numerous
Thorns
Which
Need
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
Heart
First
Thorns
Always
Awake
Flowers
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
Life
Parenting
Experience
Every
Every Step
Meet
Thorns
Plucked
Never
Allowed
Step
Real
His
Child
Should
Roses
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
Benjamin Franklin
Barefoot
Thorns
Never
He
Go
Should
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Grantland Rice
Kindness
World
Our
Thorns
Ours
Only
Blindness
Dearth
Flowers
Gather
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
Bethenny Frankel
You
People
Thorns
Only
Fair
Not Fair
Cannot
Them
Show
Show People
Petals
Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.
Hugo Chavez
Life
Me
People
Country
Thorns
Cross
Give
Give Me
More
Crown
Bleed
Because
May
Your
Jesus
Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
Danny Meyer
Me
People
Some People
Rose
Thorns
Definition
Some
Sharp
Little
Really
Petals
Near
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Gerald Massey
Kindness
World
Our
Thorns
Ours
Only
Blindness
Dearth
Flowers
Gather
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
John Bachman
Seen
Fishermen
Thorns
Dried
Small
Thrown
Had
Hours
Himself
Sticking
Occupy
Fishes
Up
Shore
Number
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
John Burroughs
Nature
Human Nature
Thorns
Promise
Sharp
Buds
How
Climate
Human
Want
Congenial
Many
Grown
Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.
Kamal Haasan
Politics
Thorns
Entering
Would
Would-Be
Crown
Like
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran
Fear
Path
Thorns
Draw
Corrupt
Only
Never
Advance
Perfection
Advancing
Halt
Blood
Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.
Reuven Rivlin
Beautiful
Thorns
Be Careful
Some
Another
Bed
Get
Just
Roses
Multiculturalism
Careful
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Rumer Godden
Word
Circle
Thorns
Motto
Set
'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'
Sarah J. Maas
Moon
Three
Beast
Beauty
Thorns
Sun
East
Inspiration
Inspired
Court
Got
West
What If
Wondering
Roses
Actually
Kernel
The cycle of jobless youth, uncertainty about the future, depressing consumption, and weak investment and stresses on both the supply and demand side of economies are all thorns in the wheel of capitalism.
Sharan Burrow
Future
Capitalism
Youth
Side
Thorns
Weak
About
Uncertainty
Both
Investment
Consumption
Supply
Demand
Economies
Wheel
Depressing
Cycle
Stresses
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
Become
Other
Approach
Distance
Thorns
Visible
Those
Charm
Fades
Like
Fairy
Literature
Land
Landscapes
View
Who
Nearer
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun.
Monty Don
Best
Broken
Rose
Setting
Setting Sun
Teeth
Summer
Thorn
Thorns
Astonishing
Sun
Favourite
Entirely
Shark
Almost
Name
Like
Low
Rosa
Grown
Early
Belongs