A Quote by Horace

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

Horace

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Charles Francis Richter

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

Vusi Mahlasela

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

Saint John Chrysostom

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

E. V. Lucas

I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

Francis Chan

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Delmore Schwartz

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

Adin Ballou

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Lee Child

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

Alphonse Karr

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

Sarah Monette

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Khalil Gibran

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Martin Luther

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

Helen Rowland

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