what does this saying mean     love thy rose but keep it on a stem?
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If you cut off a person from their support network...they will wither and dry out.  Keeping a loved one on a stem keeps you aware of the thorns and suggests you use caution when handling.  The most beautiful roses with the deepest aroma have tremendous thorns...a protective device so survival is assured.  Treat love with respect...and nourishment.
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Roses represent love.
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A rose would still be the same flower if you called it something different.  It's from Romeo andJuliet, where they aren't allowed to be inlove because their families are feuding, and one of  them issaying to the other'what does it matter what your name is? I would still love you anyway'.
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you could get a rose getting pulled out of the sand by an eagle with a banner clutched in its talons with lukes name in it.The rose means the love you have. the sand is for him being in Iraq and the eagle is for him for fighting for his country.and no matter what your love well survive iraq.
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The simple answer is because God is the only thing that is eternal.\n\nA rose is beautiful, but has a very short life span.  It is here but for a season for us to enjoy.\n\nThis is true of all thngs created by God.  We are all here for but a season and to be enjoyed while we are here.\n\nIf God put someone or something in your life for a season and it is now gone, remember to thank him for the short time that you were able to Love and enjoy it.
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say it with flowers???
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something that is particular to your relationship.. i remember every guy that gave me a rose..but i cant remember who gave me which objects cluttering my house.  i can still quote you some love letters..and i still have the rings.  so, i guess a ring and a rose, with a love poem is the best combination!
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According to Babel Fish, it means: \n\nThe dog looks at the flower and the flower opens up.
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It can mean alot of things.  To me the thing that stands out when I get flowers is that I was thought of, I am special, and that someone thinks enough of me to buy me something I like.
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Pablo neruda wrote a lot of love sonnets. One of them has been quoted in Patch Addams. That would be Sonnet XVII and it goes:\n\nI don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz\nor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:\nI love you as certain dark things are loved,\nsecretly, between the shadow and the soul.\nI love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries\nhidden within itself the light of those flowers,\nand thanks to your love, darkly in my body\nlives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.\nI love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,\nI love you simply, without problems or pride:\nI love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving\nbut this, in which there is no I or you,\nso intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,\nso intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
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Ask Shakespeare, its his line (the answer is yes by the way.  A rose is a rose, call it whatever you want)
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Cause every rose has its thorn!
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the best way i have heard is this.\nBuy her a dozen roses. Inside one of them have a ring.  have them sent to her with the instructions of playing \nHe loves me -- he loves me not.  until she finds the ring.
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I can't remember where the quote is from, but I agree with it entirely.  It means "no holds barred", in a way, and I find it true in love and war.  It's sad to say that's true in love, but, experience tells me it is true, and our culture supports it entirely.  Our international bodies try to make it untrue in war, such as in the Geneva Convention, but, war is hell everything's "fair" in hell, so . . ..  God Bless you.
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Yes, it is from "Macbeth"  I,7 lines 60ff. \nThe image is interesting. Lady Macbeth uses a simile from music, namely playing the lute. The strings of such an instruments are tightened by screwing the pegs to which they are fastened. This is to say that Macbeth must screw his courage like a lute-string until it is taut and has reached its 'sticking-place'.
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Instead of walking by the roses, stop and take the time to smell. Same as in life. Take some time out to stop and enjoy life. Don't rush through life to get to the end. You'll never get out of it alive.
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It means that even though you may have found your one great love things happen.  Specifically death.  And if you really love someone you wouldn't want them to spend the rest of their life pining away for the past.  You want them to be happy.  That's what the character is saying,"I will be happy".  Obviously, I have way to much time on my hands!!!