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«Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.»
«No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| Keywords:
crown, Crown of Glory, crown of thorns, gall, galling, palm, thorns, throne
«The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
briar, briars, fades, fairy, landscapes, nearer, thorns
«There are two ways to get rid of thorns and wicked persons; using footwear in the first case and in the second shaming them so that they cannot raise their faces again thus keeping them at a distance.»
«The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose»
«Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bud, budded, budding, canker, cankers, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, faults, fountains, loathsome, moon, mud, roses, silver, silvering, stain, stains, sun, sun rose, sweetest, thorns