Roses
Quotes
" The rose that all are praising Is not the
rose for me."
Thomas Haynes Bayly
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" Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would
dare, Tell her of hope; tell her of spring, Tell her of all I
fain would sing, Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing."
Michael Beverly
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" He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."
Bidpai (Pilpay)
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" There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the
thorns."
Bidpai (Pilpay)
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" For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,-- For the
moss-rose and the musk-rose, Maiden-blush and royal-dusk
rose,-- "What glory then for me In such a company?-- Roses
plenty, roses plenty And one nightingale for twenty?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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" You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it,
what matter?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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" Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest
pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond
the sculptured flower."
William Cullen Bryant
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" When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to
receive him."
Thomas Campbell
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" Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs."
Rose Terry Cooke
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" Go pretty rose, go to my fair,
Go tell her all I fain would dare,
Tell her of hope; tell her of spring,
Tell her of all I fain would sing,
Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing."
Michael Beverly
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