“But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”

— Anne Brontë

The Narrow Way (1848)
Context: On all her breezes borne
Earth yields no scents like those;
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

“Before man's fall the rose was born,
St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;
But for man's fault then was the thorn
Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”

Robert Herrick book Hesperides

"The Rose" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Flower of all hue, and without thorn the rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.; "Every rose has it's thorn", Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Hesperides (1648)

“Rose is in red,
But never in blue,
Sharp as a thorn,
Fights like one too.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“If from a person's mouth comes a downpour of thorns, from yours should come the petals of a rose.”

Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui (1936–2017) Islamic Sufi Scholar

Shaykh Muhammad Allauddin Siddiqui

“A stranger's rose is but a thorn.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.

“The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.