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• Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
  I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
  I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.

  William Butler Yeats

  White, Calling, Ears

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.49, Wordsworth Editions

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

  Salomón

  Love, Daughter, Son

  Rey Salomón, "El Cantar de los Cantares"

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• At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.

  William Carlos Williams

  Love, Sorry, Selfish

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.215, New Directions Publishing

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• Comer solo es una decepción. Pero no comer importa más, es hueco y verde, tiene espinas como una cadena de anzuelos, saliendo del corazón, arañándote las entrañas. El hambre se siente como tenazas, como la mordedura de los cangrejos; quema, quema, y no tiene pelaje. Sentémonos pronto a comer con todos los que no han comido; extendamos grandes manteles, pongamos sal en los lagos del mundo, montemos panaderías planetarias, mesas con fresas en la nieve, y un plato como la luna misma del que todos podamos comer. Por ahora no pido más que la justicia de comer.

  Pablo Neruda

  Decepción, Corazón, Luna

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). "The essential Neruda: selected poems", p.139, City Lights Books

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• You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Flower, World, Four

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• Ganamos la mitad de la batalla cuando nos decidimos a aceptar el mundo tal como lo encontramos, incluidas las espinas.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Adversity, Acceptance

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.533, e-artnow

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• Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

  Colleen McCullough

  Song, Pain, Heart

  Colleen McCullough (1977). “The Thorn Birds”

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• Hay más alegría en el cielo por un pecador convertido que por un justo que se mantiene firme. Un líder en batalla tiene más amor por un soldado que regresa después de huir, y que valientemente persigue al enemigo, que por uno que nunca regresó, pero que tampoco actuó valientemente. Un agricultor siente más amor por la tierra que da fruto, después de haberla limpiado de espinas, que por la tierra que nunca tuvo espinas, pero que nunca dio una cosecha fructífera.

  Papa Gregorio I

  Tierra, Alegría, Líder

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• You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn’t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.’ (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don’t know how. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Book, Sky

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• No resientas tu lugar en la historia. No te imagines en otro lugar. No cierres los ojos e imagines un mundo sin espinas, sin sombras, sin halcones. Cambia este mundo. Utiliza tu cuerpo como una herramienta destinada a ser usada, desechada y reemplazada. Mejora cada vida que toques. Llegaremos al capítulo final. Cuando tengamos ojos que puedan mirar fijamente al sol, ojos que sólo entrecierren los ojos para el Shenikah, entonces veremos niños riendo que tiran de las cobras por la cola, y halcones y conejos que juegan al pilla-pilla.

  N.D. Wilson

  Niños, Ojo, Reír

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• Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knitting, Hands, Two

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• Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.

  Claudia Gray

  Dolor, Flor, Corazón

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "Come, Follow Me" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. He is the way.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fall, Mean, Men

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• The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Creativity, Acceptance, Rose

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• And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Secret, Alex

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Es difícil soltar. Incluso cuando aquello a lo que te aferras está lleno de espinas, es difícil dejarlo ir. Tal vez especialmente entonces.

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Hard To Let Go, Hard

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.94, Titan Books

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• For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Love Is, Dust

  'Dolores' (1866) st. 20

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• So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Thinking, Years

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• Tómatelo a pecho y no dudes de que fuiste tú quien mató a Cristo. Tus pecados ciertamente lo hicieron, y cuando veas los clavos clavados en sus manos, ten por seguro que estás reflexionando, y cuando las espinas atraviesen su frente, sabe que son tus malos pensamientos.

  Martin Luther

  Cristiano, Jesús, Corazón

  Martin Luther (1997). “Martin Luther's Easter Book”, p.82, Augsburg Books

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• Sin dolor, no hay palma; sin espinas, no hay trono; sin hiel, no hay gloria; sin cruz, no hay corona.

  William Penn

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

  Sin cruz no hay corona (1669) Ver Proverbios 212

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• I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

  Arthur Guiterman

  Sandals, Vandals

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• MALAS HIERBAS Y ORTIGAS, ZARZAS Y ESPINOS, HAN CRECIDO BAJO TU SOMBRA, DESASOSIEGO Y DIVISIÓN, DESCONTENTO E INSATISFACCIÓN, JUNTO CON PELIGROS REALES PARA EL CONJUNTO.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Hierba, Real, Sombra

  Oliver Cromwell (1860). "Cartas y discursos de Oliver Cromwell: Incluyendo el Suplemento a la Primera Edición con Elucidaciones", p.142

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