"Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose."
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"I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too."
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"Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school."
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"Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish."
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"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."
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"I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."
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"Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men."
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"Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals."
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"From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building."
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"All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns."
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"When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind."
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"The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower."
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"The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose."
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"Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses."
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"A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns."
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"Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter."
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"My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty."
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"There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread"
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"I'll tell you how the Sun rose."
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"America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth of private individuals for personal profit. And, instead of impoverishing the people, these skyscrapers, as they rose higher and higher, kept raising the people's standard of living - including the inhabitants of the slums."
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