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A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
– Matshona Dhliwayo

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  5. If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  6. Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! – Mehmet Murat ildan
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  10. Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  24. Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  38. Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them? – John Cowper Powys
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  40. …wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with. – Suzette Haden Elgin

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