„Last night we owned, with looks forlorn,”Too well the scholar knowsThere is no rose without a thorn” —But peace is made! We sing, this morn,”No thorn without a rose!”Our Latin lesson is complete:We’ve learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet!“

— Lewis Carroll

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„Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.“
— William Shakespeare
„To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:“
— W.B. Yeats