Quotes with sweet

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  • Don Delillo There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • George Borrow 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?
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus 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.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Ernest Hemingway 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)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Seneca Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Milton 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.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Callimachus 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
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • William Wordsworth 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.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Umberto Eco We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
    The Name of the Rose (2014) 120
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Oswald Chambers 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.''
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Seneca What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer 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.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Carlos Wilcox With sonorous notes Of every tone, mix'd in confusion sweet, Our forest rings.
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  • Toni Morrison Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bruce McCulloch Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Aristotle Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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