Quotes 101 till 120 of 130.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And, though the sound were parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40. -
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Notes on the Next War (1935) -
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;
Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;
She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.Epigrams Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited fr -
We live by hope; and by desire: we see by the glad light; and breathe the sweet air of futurity; and so we live, or else we have no live.
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We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
The Name of the Rose (2014) 120 -
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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