Sweetest Quotes - Page 12

• Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

  Seneca the Younger

  Apples, Taste, Decline

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• The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wings, Bird, Ships

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• Love is the sweetest pain inside.

  Tarkan

  Pain, Love Is, Pain Inside

  Song: If Only You Knew, Album: Come Closer, 2006

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• Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

  Billy Graham

  Song, Pain, Stories

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.406, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

  Rudy Vallee

  Philosophy, Things In Life, Loses

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• My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

  Jayne Meadows

  Mother, Angel, Towers

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• Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Song, Eye

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• You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.

  Eliza Dushku

  People, Sensitive, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Nymphs, Unseen

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Bees, Construction

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sadness, Fighting, Littles

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  World, God Love, Enjoy

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• Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Heart, Men

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.449

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Mouths, Hell

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
  Sorrow calls no time that 's gone;
  Violets plucked, the sweetest rain
  Makes not fresh nor grow again.

  John Fletcher

  Rain, Sadness, Sorrow

  John Fletcher (1844). “The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions”, p.448

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• It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Wine, Blood, Giving

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

  Trent Reznor

  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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• We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Years, Best Year

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.150

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• Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pity, Charm

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• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Christian, Sweet, Song

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• Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

  Aristotle

  Romantic, Heart, Justice

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mother, Dream, Art

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.66, 北戴河出版

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• The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Sunset

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

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• ~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

  Liv Tyler

  Son, Parenting, Age

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