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Tag Name "Thorn" (112)

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Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.
Laozi
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
Jan Karon
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I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.
Alanis Morissette
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I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for two 7,500 word stories, and I turned in two 10,000 word stories.
Theodora Goss
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I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
Rumi
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Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
Johann Martin Usteri
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Andre Gide
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The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles and why should not other tourists do the same?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!
Rumi
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Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind
Juliet Marillier
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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
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Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.
Thomas Cogswell Upham
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Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.” Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
Rumi
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The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.
Kobo Abe
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How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
Beth Richardson Gutcheon
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We are not immortal ourselves, my friend how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence and we must acquiesce.
Thomas Jefferson
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The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.
Saadi
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He was a hot, hot former priest and she wanted to pull a Thorn Birds on his ass.
Marjorie M. Liu
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When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side
Christopher Paolini
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The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
Sathya Sai Baba
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Maya Angelou
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Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.
Dan Simmons
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But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
William Shakespeare
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