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“Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.”
Julie Andrews Quotes |
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“Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you”
Dave Matthews Band 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."”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Culture and Anarchy
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“The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes 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.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XIX, v. 10)
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“Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Gotham (bk. II, l. 20)
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“Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Compensation
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“Sweet meat must have sour sauce.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Poetaster (act III, 3)
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“To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: On Ears
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“Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.”
Thomas Percy Quotes Source: Reliques--Sir Curline
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“Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes 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.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Lucy Gray (st. 2)
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