Sweetest Quotes - Page 10

• Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Humans, Humor And Laughter

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• The sweetest cordial we receive at last,
  Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

  William Goffe

  Past, Lasts, Action

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• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  Sam Donaldson

  Sweet, Water, Waiting

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• I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

  Bayard Taylor

  Country, Eye, Land

  Bayard Taylor, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.140

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• The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

  Herman Melville

  Joy, Danger, Peril

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.71, 谷月社

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• Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

  Anthony Burgess

  World, Violence, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Known

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• Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are challenged. Such individuals are entitled to all the blessings that God has in store for His faithful and obedient children.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Children, Blessing

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• The sweetest flowers in all the world- A baby's hands.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Baby, Flower, Hands

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Memories, Blow, Night

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• Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.

  Milan Kundera

  Wise, Mother, Dream

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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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• Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

  William Shakespeare

  Nuts

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

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• My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending.'

  Joseph Cotten

  Jealous, Kissing, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Al Aronowitz

  Men, Considerate, Knows

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• The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.

  Democritus

  Excess, Bitter

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• The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

  Eli Roth

  People

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• None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Sweet, Distance

  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.185

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• My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5.

  Thomas Campion

  Sleep, Night, Light

  'A Book of Airs' (1601) no. 1; translation of Catullus 'Carmina' no. 5.

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• The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.

  George Jean Nathan

  Memories, Done, Should

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Sadism, Pleasure

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.135, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Dawn, Moments

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.537, Delphi Classics

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