Sweetest Quotes - Page 4

• All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

  Thomas Moore

  Sweet, Losing, Lost

  Thomas Moore (1823). “Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.229

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• More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Spring, Pale Yellow, Years

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• Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

  John Lyly

  Sound, Instruments, Touched

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• But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Silence, God's Creation

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• You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.

  J.R. Ward

  Thug, Known

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1163, Penguin

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• The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.

  William Allingham

  Mother, Kissing

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• Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

  Noah Webster

  Honor, Excellence, Female

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.140

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• The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

  Charlaine Harris

  Break Up, Breakup, Couple

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.23, Penguin

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• O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Pain, Past

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Choices, Would Be

  "The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson".

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• I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

  William Wordsworth

  Boys, Teach, My Boys

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.146

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• If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Greatest Wealth, Tongue

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• This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

  Patience Strong

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Stars, Flower, Thinking

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• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
  For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
  Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Past, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

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• Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Going Away, Tomorrow, Life Is

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• The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Feelings, Divine Power

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• Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.

  Walt Whitman

  Afar, Lasts, Hours

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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• A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Wisdom, Hurt

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• The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Mother, Father

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.446, Delphi Classics

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• Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Sleep, Long

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• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Memories, Spring

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

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• Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

  William Shakespeare

  Nuts

  William Shakespeare (2006). “As You Like It”, p.13, Theatrefolk

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• George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.

  Al Aronowitz

  Men, Considerate, Knows

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• I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

  Salvador Dali

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 79, 1964.

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