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Letter "B" » bed of roses
«I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.»
Author: Hank Aaron
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ball game, bed of roses, curve, curve ball, no ball, pitcher, stand in, strike out
«And I will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies.»
«I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Flattery
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Against A, bed, bed of roses, catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, description, descriptions, fine, flattered, named, named after, no-good, pleased, rose, wall
«And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.»
«A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.»
«Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Marriage
| Keywords:
bed of roses, field of battle
«And though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
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bed of roses
«O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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bed of roses, crimson, howling, The Howling, worm
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