Sweetest Quotes - Page 13

• gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

  Lynda Barry

  Music, Singing, Sound

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• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  Celia Thaxter

  Wise, Sweet, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

  Alfred Richard Orage

  Jealousy, Dragons, Envy

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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• Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

  John Ford

  Heart, Honest, Slave

  John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274

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• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Land, People

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Song

  "Leaves of Grass".

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• I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

  Malcolm X

  Appreciation, Freedom, Believe

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• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Revenge

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• It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

  Frank Herbert

  Sweet

  FRANK HERBERT (1969). “DUNE MESSIAH”

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• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

  J. G. Holland

  Home, Rivers, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.

  Matthew Henry

  Children, Home, House

  "Daily Communion with God".

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• There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

  J. G. Holland

  Flower, Thinking, Dust

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• My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I may leave my heart before the holy Sacrament. How I would miss Our Lord if He were to be away from me by His presence in the Blessed Sacrament!

  Katharine Drexel

  Jesus, Blessed, Heart

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• Success is the sweetest revenge.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Success, Revenge

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2016

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• Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Famous Love, Pleasure, Worst

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• The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Sunset, Past

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• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Fall

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• When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Spiritual, Oneness

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.223, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.

  Lord Byron

  Baby, Rose

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 43

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• Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.

  William Saroyan

  Love, Kissing, Taste

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• We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the Hut. But he was the sweetest dog, and I cried and cried when he died.

  Marlee Matlin

  Dog, Years, Apples

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• The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

  R. C. Sproul

  Beautiful, Jesus, Sacrifice

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• I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Laughter, Heartache, Desperate

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• The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

  Aziz Ansari

  Four, Language, English Language

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• Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do others, the rest of the 6.8 billion–and those who will follow them.  And then you too will discover the great and curious truth of the human experience is that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.  The sweetest joys of life, then, come only with the recognition that you’re not special. Because everyone is.

  David McCullough

  Independent, Exercise, Creative

  "Commencement speaker blasts students". www.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2012.

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