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• If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

  Francis Quarles

  Home, Heart, Enemy

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.76

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• Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

  Germaine Greer

  Sweet, Pigs, May

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• Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Running, Sweet, Drawing

  James Whitcomb Riley, “Who Bides His Time”

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• O days remember'd well! remember'd all!
  The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall;
  Those garden rambles in the silent night,
  Those trees so shady, and that moon se bright,
  That thickset alley by the arbor clos'd,
  That woodbine seat where we at last repos'd;
  And then the hopes that came and then were gone,
  Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on.

  George Crabbe

  Sweet, Moon, Night

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• It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tails, Mouths, Bees

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• The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

  Mason Cooley

  Bears, Hard

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• But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

  Angela Thirkell

  Loss, Would Be, Human Nature

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

  Amy Childs

  Beach, Holiday, Looks

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• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  Vijender Singh

  Artist, Bollywood, Music Love

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• What would people look like
  if we could see them as they are,
  soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
  reckless, pinned against time?

  Ellen Bass

  People, Looks, Reckless

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• Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.

  George H. W. Bush

  Education, Mother, Teacher

  1988 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 18 August 1988, Superdome, New Orleans, LA

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• Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey

  Dinah

  Glitter, Chasing, Diamond

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• Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.77, Kodansha America

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• blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

  Ursula Curtiss

  Milk And Honey, Land, Age

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• The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

  Tony Evans

  Mistake, Wife, Scary

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• We shot [Hi Honey, I'm Home] on location in Orlando, Florida, so I was there by myself. And I remember I was late one day, and Gale Gordon pulled me aside, and he said, "Honey, when it says you have to be here at 10 a.m., you need to be here at 9:30." And ever since, I've always been a half-hour early to my call time!

  Julie Benz

  Home, Florida, One Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

  Bill Bryson

  Mother, Two, Sandwiches

  1989 The Lost Continent, ch.1.

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• In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

  Edmund Spenser

  Baby, Boys, Want

  1595 Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

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• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Sweet, Cells

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Stars, War

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.209, Grove Press

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• Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...

  William Golding

  War, Men, Years

  "The Hot Gates". Book by William Golding, 1965.

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• I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Love, Believe, Things In Life

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• We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.

  Kelly Link

  Sweet, Moon, Bed

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.207, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.

  Columella

  Spring, Rain, Years

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• The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, World, Scenery

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.77, New York Review of Books

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