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12 Quotes for 'Sweetness' in the Database.
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Sweetness Quotes
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The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a
harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of
beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two
noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his
Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and
light."
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Culture and Anarchy
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The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Culture and Anarchy
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Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prevail.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Literature and Dogma--Preface
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More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XIX, v. 10)
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Gotham (bk. II, l. 20)
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Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Compensation
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Poetaster (act III, 3)
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: On Ears
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Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.
Author: Thomas Percy
Source: Reliques--Sir Curline
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Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at V, i)
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Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two
noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Battle of the Books, fable on the merits of the bee (the ancients) and the spider (the moderns)
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The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Lucy Gray (st. 2)
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