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• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Sweet, Heart

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• For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms

  'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Food, Animal

  "The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

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• Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Deceit, Poison

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• As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Bees, Sage

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• Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

  Patricia Polacco

  Sweet, Book, Taken

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• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. . . They dined on mince and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon, They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Moon, Light

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• Tiggers don't like honey.

  A. A. Milne

  Tigger

  House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 2

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• I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

  Antonio Machado

  Success, Sweet, Heart

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

  Herbert Gold

  Flower, Bees, Creation

  Herbert Gold (1993). “Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet”

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• As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

  Plutarch

  Men, Awkward, Thyme

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• And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Heart, Garden

  Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

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• You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Honesty, Want

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• How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand

  Ovid

  Money, Thinking, Hands

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• Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Things In Life

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• Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

  Thomas Nashe

  Flower, Angel, Phrases

  1592 Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetr y'.

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• The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Dream, Eye

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• The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

  C. S. Lewis

  Independence, Progress, Way

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• If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Reality, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Dec 04, 2013

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• When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

  Terrence Howard

  Buzz, Knows, Beehives

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.

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• Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

  Homer

  Anger, Men, Bosoms

  "The Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
  This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Years, Faces

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• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries to eat a little, honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is by no means sufficient to appease his appetite, but he runs the risk of wounding his tongue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Children, Selfish

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• Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
  Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
  As fair as ever and as fit to use;
  So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

  George Herbert

  Running, Flower, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121

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