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• The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

  Stevie Smith

  Fire, Dresses, Hell

  Arthur C. Rankin, Stevie Smith (1985). “The poetry of Stevie Smith, "little girl lost"”, Barnes & Noble Imports

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• There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Taste, Christ

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.259

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• Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

  Henry James

  Oxford, Leisure, Dignity

  Henry James (2011). “English Hours: A Portrait of a Country”, p.148, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.

  Mary Oliver

  Flower, Sea, Giving

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Blue Iris: Poems and Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

  Frank Bartleman

  Holiness, Fierce, Contact

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• There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Divinity, Devotion

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• The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Success, Believe

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• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  Sara Teasdale

  Daughter, Song, Pain

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

  Paul Brunton

  Serenity, Taste, Silent

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

  George Sand

  Ugly, Virtue, Made

  George Sand (1915). “... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette”

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Love Is, Two

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

  Alain de Botton

  Thinking, Opposites, Anxiety

  "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

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• There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Be Patient, Spirit, God Love

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Prayer, Writing, Voice

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• It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Eye, Perspective, Perfection

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• I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.

  Roger Housden

  Morning, Couple, Book

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Christian, Justice

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• It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Justice, Soul

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• Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Romance, Splits

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

  Philip Sidney

  Beauty, Lovely, Battle

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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• I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. It's not that they all get along, or that there aren't bad people or people we make fun of. But at the core, there's a kind of sweetness.

  Ivan Reitman

  Fun, Character, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Character, Light

  'Aspects of the Novel' (1927) ch. 6 (on James Joyce's 'Ulysses')

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• Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

  Dante Alighieri

  Language, Muse, Destroying

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• To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Too Much, Taste

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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