Sweetness Quotes
- A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.~ Jeremy Taylor
- All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.~ George Bernard Shaw
- Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.~ Henry David Thoreau
- Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.~ Matthew Arnold
- Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.~ Theodore Fontane
- Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. ~ George Williams Childs
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.~ Thomas Gray
- I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.~ George Bernard Shaw
- If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.~ African Proverb
- In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.~ Hubert H. Humphrey
- In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.~ Kahlil Gibran
- It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge.~ George Eliot
- It is not with saying, “Honey,” “Honey,” that sweetness will come into the mouth.~ African Proverb
- It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.~ Christian Nevell Bovee
- It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.~ John Christian Bovee
- Nobody’s interested in sweetness and light.~ Hedda Hopper
- Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.~ Charles Churchill
- The fly that touches honey cannot use it’s wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation.~ Ghose Aurobindo
- The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.~ Matthew Arnold
- There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- The sweetness of food doesn’t last long, but the sweetness of good words do.~ Thai Proverb
- The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
- To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.~ Charles Lamb
- What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.~ Marcus T. Cicero
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