every rose has a thorn

A form of every rose has its thorn — Every good situation includes some aspect of misfortune or adversity.

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proverb
  1. alternativeAlternative form of every rose has its thorn.

    However, every rose has a thorn.

    2012, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star: A Novel, →ISBN, page 45
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    He pricked a finger. Every rose has a thorn. Isabella is a rose. Her father is a thorn.

    2007 -, Mary Louise McCaffrey, A Handful of Sand, →ISBN

    I then See it a rose with a thorn on it the last One there and I grab it and tell the guy I will take it with a card saying to my True love let this rose be a gift to you Even though every rose has a thorn But my heart will always be yours.

    2010, Cordan Stough, A World of Fantasy and Disaster, →ISBN, page 103

    Perhaps, like every rose has a thorn, every latent-variable SEM model begins with a contirmatory Factor analysis (CFA) model.

    2013, Todd D. Little, Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling, →ISBN, page 71
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