No Rose Without A Thorn Essay

Rose, bud, and thorn is a very popular icebreaker activity amongst Dartmouth students. Essentially, a rose is something positive that has happened in your life, a bud is something you are looking forward to, and a thorn is something that has been negative or challenging to face. As the term is quickly coming to a close, I figure this is an excellent time to reflect by doing my own rose, bud, and thorn for this fall!

No Rose Without A Thorn Essay

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40. Always the thorn is near the sweet-smelling roses. (This proverb has an even more intricate, even poetic, word order, with the subject of the sentence, spina plopped down into the middle of the adjectival phrase which is the predicate: odoriferis proxima rosis. The noun-adjective phrase odoriferis...rosis poetically "wraps" around the main part of the sentence.)

Rose bushes have thorns, and we bear with them for the sake of the roses. All of us have faults, but we are judged by the good we do. It is not enough to congratulate on the thorns we have, but we should look into our lives for the roses.

Duties of a student: There is no rose without thorn, no rights without duties and no pleasures without pains. No wonder then that a student has certain duties to perform. He has to discharge duties to his own self, to his parents, to his family,to his country, to the wide world and what is more to God. The first and foremost duty of a student is to acquire knowledge. But he must not confine himself to the prescribed books only.

The Nightingale asks if there is any way she can get one red rose for the Student. The tree replies that the only way of producing a red rose is for the Nightingale to sing by moonlight while allowing a thorn to pierce her heart, so her blood seeps through to the tree and produces a red rose. The Nightingale agrees to this, because she believes Love to be more valuable than Life, and a human heart more precious than hers.

You have a chance to find the bright side to your situation, no matter how tough it seems, by only changing your view and identifying the positive of every experience. There is a lesson in the pain and there is a beautiful rose in your thorn bush. 2ff7e9595c