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Love doth scathe The gentle heart, as northern blasts do roses.
- John Keats
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
- Oscar Wilde
In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
- Oscar Wilde
He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. Here. I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.
- Charles Martin
Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
- Jack Kerouac
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.
- Max Lucado
When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.
- Margaret Atwood
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
- Dr. Seuss
The morning was a cup filled with mist and glamor. In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses. The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree above her seemed in perfect accord with her mood. A sentence from a very old, very true, very wonderful Book came to her lips, 'Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
- LM Montgomery
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. —Dr. Seuss" ? Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type
- Dr. Seuss