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"Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends."
"Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats."
"i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead."
"I pride myself on being the guy who can do Def Comedy Jam and Charlie Rose. And do well on both."
"If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses."
"I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it."
"Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose."
"Amber Rose is NOT Charlie's [Rose] cousin. I just want to make sure people know."
"We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering."
"The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced. The fact that progress that was made for people of color, for women, for LGBTQ people, are all at risk."
"I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me."
"It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat."
"Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days."
"But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!"
"I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable."
"When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree."
"What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds."
"He wears the rose Of youth upon him."
"The budding rose above the rose full blown."
"Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names."
