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• Now I know surely and forever,
  However much I have blotted our
  Waking love, its memory is still
  there. And I know the web, the net,
  The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
  One brief instant it was not blind, nor
  Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
  Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
  I who am lost and damned with words,
  Whose words are a business and an art,
  I have no words. These words, this poem, this
  Is all confusion and ignorance.
  But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
  My heart beat one free beat and sent
  Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Life, Art, Memories

  "She Is Away". Poem by Kenneth Rexroth. "In Defense of the Earth". Book by Kenneth Rexroth, www-personal.umich.edu. 1956.

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• O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
  The golden time of first love!
  The eye sees the open heaven,
  The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
  O that the beautiful time of young love
  Could remain green forever.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Beautiful, Heart

  "The Song of the Bell". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1799.

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• Love's very pain is sweet,
  But its reward is in the world divine
  Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Pain, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.285

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• She is coming, my own, my sweet;
  Were it ever so airy a tread,
  My heart would hear her and beat,
  Were it earth in an earthly bed;
  My dust would hear her and beat,
  Had I lain for a century dead;
  Would start and tremble under her feet,
  And blossom in purple and red.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Heart, Feet

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain;
  And sweet is death who puts an end to pain:
  I know not which is sweeter, no, not I.
  Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be:
  Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me.
  O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die.
  ...
  I fain would follow love, if that could be;
  I needs must follow death, who calls for me;
  Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Art, Pain

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless you can feel when the song is done
  No other is sweet in its rhythm;
  Unless you can feel when left by one
  That all men else go with him.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Song, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

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• The golden hours on angel wings
  Flew o'er me and my dearie,
  For dear to me as light and life
  Was my sweet Highland Mary.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Angel, Light

  1789 'Highland Mary', stanza 2.

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• I know not when the day shall be,
  I know not when our eyes may meet;
  What welcome you may give to me,
  Or will your words be sad or sweet,
  It may not be 'till years have passed,
  'Till eyes are dim and tresses gray;
  The world is wide, but, love, at last,
  Our hands, our hearts, must meet some day.

  Hugh Conway

  Life, Heart, Eye

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• He who, being bold
  For life to come, is false to the past sweet
  Of mortal life, hath killed the world above.
  For why to live again if not to meet?
  And why to meet if not to meet in love?
  And why in love if not in that dear love of old?

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Life, Past, Dear Love

  Sydney Thompson Dobell, “To A Friend In Bereavement”

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• How happy the lover,
  How easy his chain,
  How pleasing his pain,
  How sweet to discover
  He sighs not in vain.

  John Dryden

  Life, Pain, Lovers

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.372

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• Love understands love; it needs no talk.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Love, Life, Cute

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1877). “Royal commandments; or, Morning thoughts for the King's servants”

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• What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Heart, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.931, e-artnow

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• Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
  I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Morning, Dew

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• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Hands, Feet

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Poison, Too Late

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• I that have love and no more
  Give you but love of you, sweet;
  He that hath more, let him give;
  He that hath wings, let him soar;
  Mine is the heart at your feet
  Here, that must love you to live.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Love You, Heart

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Life, Cute

  Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.207, University of Georgia Press

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• I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Peace, War, Havens

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• There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained

  Pierre Corneille

  Sympathy, Ties, Soul

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• The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

  Khalil Gibran

  Being Strong, Song, Heart

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• Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Humility, World

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• Gos bless America, my home sweet home.

  Irving Berlin

  4th Of July, Home, America

  "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1

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• God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.

  Sam Storms

  Greatness, Depth, Redemption

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• Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Beautiful, Wisdom

  "Lethargy Most Anti-God". Nirmala Srivastava's speech at Chelsham Road Ashram in London, UK, www.amruta.org. September 27, 1980.

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