Sweet Quotes - page 7

And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying. (Christina Rossetti)
Hope is like a harebell, trembling from its birth, Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth, Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white, Love is like a lovely rose, the world's delight. Harebells and sweet lilies show a thornless growth, But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. View quote
Christina Rossetti
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. View quote
William Allingham
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening. View quote
Matthew Arnold
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. View quote
James Baldwin
Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace. View quote
Sara Teasdale
It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! View quote
Patrick Henry
Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! View quote
John Fletcher
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man. View quote
Jon Anderson
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. View quote
Francis Beaumont
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. View quote
Harry Dean Stanton
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. View quote
Philip Sidney
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude. View quote
Thomas Gray
And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose. (Thomas Gray)
I am out of humanity's reach. I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech; I start at the sound of my own. View quote
William Cowper
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. View quote
George Herbert
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within. View quote
C. P. Snow