"We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting"
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"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything."
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"I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem."
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"Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life."
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"A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story."
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"Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year."
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"When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity."
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"Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close."
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"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
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"Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?"
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"Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny."
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"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
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"Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair."
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"You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?"
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"There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the opening of the ROSE."
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"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is."
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"Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting."
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"As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose."
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"Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose."
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"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume."
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