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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

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