Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.”
The Lily
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827Related quotes
“For roses also blossom on the thorn,
And the fair lily springs from loathsome weed.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Che de le spine ancor nascon le rose,
E d'una fetida erba nasce il giglio.
Canto XXVII, stanza 121 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
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)
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
As translated in Spanish-American Poetry : A Dual-language Anthology (1996) by Seymour Resnick
Variant translation:
I cultivate a white rose
In July as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his hand frankly. <p> And for the cruel person who tears out
the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns:
I cultivate a white rose.
Simple Verses (1891), I Grow a White Rose
“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.
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.