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Rose Quotes - Page 17

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.125, Penguin

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

Robert Southwell, Henry Constable, William Drummond (1906). “Robert Southwell: Selected Poems; Henry Constable: Pastorals and Sonnets; William Drummond: Songs, Sonnets, Etc”

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) "All That's Past"

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

"Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 184), 1930.

[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)