• Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

    Isaac Watts: Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
    Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7