Rose Quotes - Page 2

• I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Royalty

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• The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

  Saadi

  Sorrow, Together, Contrast

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• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Flower, Night, Growth

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• I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

  Rumi

  Compassion, Thorns, Heal

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• The red rose whispers of passion,
  And the white rose breathes of love;
  O, the red rose is a falcon,
  And the white rose is a dove.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Flower, Passion, White

  John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

  Anne Bronte

  Courage, Flower, Thorns

  Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”

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• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

  Bette Midler

  Spring, Winter, Snow

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• Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

  Erica Jong

  Power, Ends

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

  Wilkie Collins

  Flower, Moments, Havens

  "The Moonstone".

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• Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Flower, Romantic Love

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

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• You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Courses

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

  Angelus Silesius

  Doe, Attention, Pay

  "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius, 1657.

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• Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Simple, Smell

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

  Anatole France

  Believe

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• How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

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• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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• A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

  William Carlos Williams

  Rain, Flower, Compassion

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

  Ovid

  Flower, Ancestry, Produce

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• Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flower, Stem, Roses And Love

  Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, “A Night In Italy”

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Heart, Doe

  Melody Beattie (2013). “The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  Isaac Hayes

  Thorns, Bears, Accepting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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