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• Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war--until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime

  Robert Lowell

  Children, War, Fall

  Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers (1988). “Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs”, p.188, University of Michigan Press

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• Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

  Milan Kundera

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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• I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Imagination, Waiting

  "The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• Deep in the meadow, hidden far away, A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray, Forget your woes and let your troubles lay, And when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe, here it's warm, Here the daisies guard you from every harm, Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, Here is the place where I love you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dream, Morning, Lost Love

  "The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

  Robin McKinley

  Silly, Heart, Giving

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Money, Inspirational Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Winning, Joy

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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• In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Bird, Hey

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

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• Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

  William Goldman

  Romantic, Good Night, Goodnight

  William Goldman (1995). “William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Father, Selfish, Glasses

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• You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 'Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Nice, Eye

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• If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I was a child, even though I grew up in an era of highly processed food, the grocery store sold local field peas, lima beans, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. While there is a deep sense of place in the South - and the foods of this place - I don't want to present a pastoral vision of the contemporary South. The majority of Southerners cannot access fresh, local, affordable food.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Children, Distance, Garden

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Taken, Vengeance, Stills

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Ambition, Men

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• Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

  William Blake

  Baby, Joy, Secret

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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• She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.

  E. Lockhart

  Simple, People, Should

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.217, Hot Key Books

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• Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Love, Coffee, Food

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• But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dumb, Littles

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.10, Penguin

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• When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Remembrance, Silent

  Sonnet 30

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• Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, White, Black

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Mean, Extremes

  William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.58, Lorenz Educational Publishers

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• I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.

  Laurie R. King

  Children, Home, Hands

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• It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Fear, Awful

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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• When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Air, Water

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• And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Country, Rain

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1980). “The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King”

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