#thorn

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#defenses #roses #thorns #beauty

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible. ↗

— Patti Smith

#everything #i #long #long time #possible

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#beside #change #could #first #kissed

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advancing #blood #corrupt #draw #fear

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ↗

— Ellen Key

#child #every #every step #experience #his

Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#eugenie #thorn-queen #art

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. ↗

— Martin Amis

#down #grow #lamb #lie #lion

She seemed shy, yet all her attention was focused on Magnus, as if he were the most fascinating thing she had ever seen. There was no man who did not want to see himself reflected like that in a beautiful girl's eyes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #beauty

Now, in Mr. Thornton’s face the straight brows fell over the clear deep-set earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at. The lines in the face were few but firm, as if they were carved in marble, and lay principally about the lips, which were slightly compressed over a set of teeth so faultless and beautiful as to give the effect of sudden sunlight when the rare bright smile, coming in an instant and shining out of the eyes, changed the whole look from the severe and resolved expression of a man ready to do and dare everything, to the keen honest enjoyment of the moment, which is seldom shown so fearlessly and instantaneously except by children ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#mr-thornton #beauty