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How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.
James Thomas FieldsRead
We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.
Pope John Paul IiRead
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;_x000D_ _x000D_ Our meddling intellect_x000D_ _x000D_ Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things_x000D_ _x000D_ We murder to dissect._x000D_ _x000D_ Enough of Science and of Art;_x000D_ _x000D_ Close up these barren leaves;_x000D_ _x000D_ Come forth, and bring with you a heart_x000D_ _x000D_ That watches and receives.
William WordsworthRead
Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
Therese Of LisieuxRead
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Seneca The YoungerRead
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. CioranRead
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.
William ShakespeareRead
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
George WhitefieldRead
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. ... It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveler on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game.
Herman MelvilleRead
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MoliereRead
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!
Margaret FullerRead
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!_x000D_ _x000D_ You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled._x000D_ _x000D_ Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring_x000D_ _x000D_ The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
William Butler YeatsRead
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LucretiusRead
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings_x000D_ _x000D_ That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
William ShakespeareRead
He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
HoraceRead
It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.
HoraceRead
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
William ShakespeareRead
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
Henry Ward BeecherRead
So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end
William ShakespeareRead

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