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• The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.

  Colleen McCullough

  Law, Bird, Singing

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.610, Head of Zeus

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• Si un cuadro de un árbol fuera sólo la representación exacta del original, de modo que se pareciera al árbol, no habría razón para pintarlo. Pero el cuadro, si es del tipo adecuado, aporta algo que ni una fotografía ni una vista del árbol transmiten. Destaca algo de carácter, de calidad, de individualidad. No nos perdemos mirando espinas y defectos; captamos una visión de la grandeza y la belleza de un rey del bosque.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Kings, Character, Views

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• In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (1922). “Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• Sobre mi cansado corazón llovieron sonrisas, aplausos y flores, pero más allá vi problemas y espinas innumerables.

  Jefferson Davis

  Flower, Heart, Saws

  Jefferson Davis, Hudson Strode (1966). "Private Letters, 1823-1889", New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Pedro Abelardo

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• No tenemos fe, no tenemos paciencia para ver esto. Confiamos en el hombre de la calle; pero hay un ser en el universo en el que nunca confiamos y es Dios. Confiamos en Él cuando obra justo a nuestra manera. Pero llegará el momento en que, recibiendo golpe tras golpe, la mente autosuficiente morirá. En todo lo que hacemos, el ego serpiente se levanta. Nos alegramos de que haya tantas espinas en el camino. Golpean la capucha de la cobra.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Paciencia, Perseverancia, Golpe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda", p.2644, Manonmani Publishers.

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• ... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Ideas, Soul, Mind

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• Las fuertes manos de Dios convirtieron la corona de espinas en una corona de gloria; y en tales manos estamos seguros.

  Charles Williams

  Strong, Hands, Crowns

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• Recuerda que toda complacencia culpable con los humores del mundo, toda indulgencia pecaminosa de nuestras propias pasiones, está acumulando preocupaciones y temores para la hora de las tinieblas; y que el recuerdo del tiempo mal empleado sembrará de espinas nuestro lecho de enfermo, y atormentará de desesperación nuestros espíritus que se hunden.

  Reginald Heber

  Pasión, Enfermedad, Recuerdo

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" por Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 547), 1895.

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• Reinado de golpes cayendo en cascada sobre tus hombros Demasiados hombres vestidos de soldados El cordero es llevado al suelo Bajo el peso de la Corona Una corona de espinas y oscuras hazañas La esvástica y la hoz y el martillo Son símbolos que sólo cosechan malas hierbas.

  Andy Partridge

  Weed, Dark, Men

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• I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled my feet in quag-water; And by the thorns and by the wind The blossom that I took was thinn'd, And yet I found it sweet and fair.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Sweet, Climbing, Wind

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Routledge

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• Mi pecho intachable es el horno, el combustible espinas que hieren;El amor es el fuego y suspira el humo, las cenizas vergüenza y escarnio;El combustible lo pone la Justicia, y la Misericordia sopla las brasas;El metal de este horno forjado son las almas mancilladas de los hombres.

  Robert Southwell

  Blow, Love Is, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). "Obras poéticas", p.98

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• Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Play, Crowns

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• ... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Inspirational, Weed, Real

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• I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

  John Bachman

  Numbers, Hours, Fisherman

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• Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Harm, Strikes, Cushions

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.40

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• Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Things In Life

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• No hay viajero que haya llegado a esa morada bendita sin encontrar espinas y cardos en su camino.

  William Cowper

  Acceptance, Found, Abode

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• Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

  Teresa de Ávila

  Hombres, Mente, Ricos

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• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Secret, Needs

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  San Francisco de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

  Robert Greene

  Sovereign, Would Be, Compass

  Robert Greene, “Fawnia”

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• There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

  Juan Vianney

  Attachment, Two, Clothes

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• Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth,Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth,Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white,Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight.Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth,But the rose with all its thorns excels them both.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Love Is, White

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

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