Sweetest Quotes - Page 12

• The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Wings, Bird, Ships

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• Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Mouths, Hell

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.244

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• Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Heart, Men

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.449

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• To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  World, God Love, Enjoy

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• Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

  Seneca the Younger

  Apples, Taste, Decline

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• Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

  Sophocles

  Enemy, Mockery, Mock

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• Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

  Billy Graham

  Song, Pain, Stories

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.406, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
  Sorrow calls no time that 's gone;
  Violets plucked, the sweetest rain
  Makes not fresh nor grow again.

  John Fletcher

  Rain, Sadness, Sorrow

  John Fletcher (1844). “The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions”, p.448

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• It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Wine, Blood, Giving

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• I wear this crown of thorns
  Upon my liar's chair
  Full of broken thoughts
  I cannot repair
  Beneath the stains of time
  The feelings disappear
  You are someone else
  I am still right here
  What have I become
  My sweetest friend?

  Trent Reznor

  Liars, Sadness, Broken

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• Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sadness, Fighting, Littles

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• You know, I really am probably one of the sweetest, most sensitive people you'll ever meet.

  Eliza Dushku

  People, Sensitive, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

  Jayne Meadows

  Mother, Angel, Towers

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• The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

  Rudy Vallee

  Philosophy, Things In Life, Loses

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sweet, Song, Eye

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Nymphs, Unseen

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Bees, Construction

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

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• Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Wisdom, Prayer, School

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• The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Flower, People

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.

  Tupac Shakur

  Revenge, Rap, Thug

  "Song: 'Hail Mary'". 1997.

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• Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Poverty, Bones

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.346, Collector's Library

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• Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.

  John Burroughs

  Twilight, Hymns, Solitude

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.100, tredition

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• If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.

  Matthew Henry

  Children, Home, House

  "Daily Communion with God".

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• The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

  R. C. Sproul

  Beautiful, Jesus, Sacrifice

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