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• When you taste honey, remember gall.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taste, Remember, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.247, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Art, Sadness, Wings

  Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

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• A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

  Smokey Robinson

  Taste, Adages

  "Song: 'I Second That Emotion'". 1967.

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Bees, Construction, Sweetest

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

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• Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

  Isaac Watts

  Rose, Thorns, Grows

  Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7

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• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Years, Bees And Honey

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• Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 43, 1605-1615.

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• When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Life, Teamwork

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353

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• Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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• It takes a bee to get the honey out

  Arthur Guiterman

  Bees, Honey Bee

  Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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• How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Flower, Everyday

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.204, Penguin

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• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Wisdom, Truth

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.124

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• Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Lying, Knowledge

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1956). “The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals”

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• How doth the little busy bee
  Improve each shining hour,
  And gather honey all the day
  From every opening flower!

  Isaac Watts

  Flower, Shining, Littles

  Divine Songs for Children "Against Idleness and Mischief " l. 1 (1715) See Carroll 5

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• And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

  A. A. Milne

  Bees And Honey, Reason, Honey Bee

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.

  John Berger

  Home, Smell, Clothes

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• When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Adventure, Looks

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• She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.

  Patrick Süskind

  Girl, Sweet, Dark

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• Honey isn't really that good for you.

  Erykah Badu

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• The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Two

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• My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

  Louis Adamic

  Life, Fathers Day, Grandpa

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• The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Bees And Honey, Sunbeams

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• In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

  Song: Angelina

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• I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

  John Burroughs

  Flower, Book, Bees

  "Summit of the years".

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• When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

  Joe Strummer

  Bees, Killing

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