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Thorns Quotes
On the briars beneath every distant, fairy-tale view.
These quotes treat thorns as the price of getting close to anything: literature's fairy-land charm that fades on approach, a life thickly sown with hardship best passed through quickly, and politics likened to donning a crown of thorns. Read more in About quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
- Lily
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As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
- Bed
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Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.
- Couple Times
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He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
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Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.
- Human
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
- Fishes
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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
- Fragrance
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
- Dream
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020