"It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad."
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"Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships"
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"I'll tell you how the sun rose, a ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!"
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"It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'"
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"The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food."
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"They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?"
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"Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
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"Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns."
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"What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?"
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"But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose."
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"A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: “Aren’t you tired of waiting?” “Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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"The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns."
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"As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew."
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"The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom."
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"Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best."
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"Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you."
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"Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal."
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"The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd."
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"And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart"
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