"Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends."
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"I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal."
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"Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow."
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"Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines."
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"When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing."
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"I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!"
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"We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose."
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"A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded."
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"Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year."
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"But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity."
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"In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human."
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"If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage."
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"I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up"
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"And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days."
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"Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes."
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"Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be."
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"I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver."
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"The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all"
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"Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses."
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"I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off."
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