Sweet Quotes

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  It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Real, Simple, Simplicity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

  Unknown

  Soul, One Line, Friendship Memories

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• I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Lonely, Soul, New Home

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• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  People, Classroom, Smarter

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• The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

  Cyril Connolly

  Past, Smell, Cynical

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

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• There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Mom, Mother, Freedom

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

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• There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Life, God, Christian

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

  Homer

  Sleep, Eyelids, Pleasant

  Homer, Theodore Alois William BUCKLEY (1851). “The Odyssey of Homer, with the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Literally Translated with Explanatory Notes, by T. A. Buckley”, p.177

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

  Khalil Gibran

  Crush, Spiritual, Amazing Love

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• Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

  John Bunyan

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1678) pt. 1.

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• how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  Robert Browning

  Reflection, Mad, Nostalgia

  'Confessions' (1864) st. 9

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• Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Bears, Remember

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Romantic, Beautiful, Men

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• Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

  Rumi

  Moving, Journey, Self

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• The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

  J.R. Miller

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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  Change in all things is sweet.

  Aristotle

  Change, Philosophical, All Things

  Plato, Aristotle (2012). “Gorgias and Rhetoric”, p.173, Hackett Publishing

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• Sweets to the sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Death

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Rooms, Said, Kvothe

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2016

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• A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

  Paul Newman

  Money, Humorous, Gambling

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Blessing, Journey

  George Whitefield (1771). “Letters of George Whitefield, for the Period 1734-1742”, p.451, Banner of Truth

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• Be sweet, be good, and honest always.

  Emma Bunton

  Honest, Be Good

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