Sweetest Quotes - Page 4

• Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Men, Envy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Smell, Yield

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.509

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• The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

  Emily Saliers

  Decision, Acting

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• The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.

  Andres Segovia

  Guitar, Voice, Soul

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• He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.

  David Nicholls

  Summer, Home, Kissing

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Don't talk. Kill it." That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.

  Richard Kadrey

  Might, Firsts, First Date

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• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

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• Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

  Amit Ray

  Love Is, Soul, Catalyst

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• If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Greatest Wealth, Tongue

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• This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

  Patience Strong

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past -
  For years fleet away with the wings of the dove -
  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
  Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Past, Blood

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.52, Delphi Classics

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• Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Going Away, Tomorrow, Life Is

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• Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Joy, Thank God

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.78, Macmillan

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• I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

  William Wordsworth

  Boys, Teach, My Boys

  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.146

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• You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.

  John Keats

  Home, Kissing, Yesterday

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Laura won’t hurt you,” I said, wrestling him for control. “She’s one of the sweetest ghosts I ever met. She just likes to play.” “Yeah, I bet. With my bones, if I had any!” “She isn’t like that!” “Sure. ’Cause when the innocent little girl shows up in a horror flick, it’s always a good thing!

  Karen Chance

  Girl, Hurt, Wrestling

  Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

  Seneca the Younger

  Love, Life, Time

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• Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die

  Marianne Bluger

  Spring, Mean, Might

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• This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

  Jane Austen

  Faults, Spite, Creatures

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.557, MobileReference

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• Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

  Fannie Flagg

  Glasses, Expression, Ants

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• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

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• She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

  Lauren Kate

  Heart, Wind, Feelings

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.268, Delacorte Press

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• Precious and priceless, so lovable, too; The world's sweetest miracle, baby, is you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Girl, Baby, Miracle

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.39, Revell

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