3. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch
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5. The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love;
6. O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. John Boyle O’Reilly
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8. The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends. Persian Proverb
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10. Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. William Butler Yeats
12. Which is loveliest in a rose? Its coy beauty when it's budding, or its splendour when it blows? George Barlow
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14. But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. William Shakepeare
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16. A primrose by the river's brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more. William Wordsworth
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18. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds 'round my neck. Emma Goldman