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“When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.”
Chinua Achebe
“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.”
Alison Lurie
“Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As advocates and activists for justice know, loving involves struggle, resistance, risk. People working today on behalf of women, blacks, lesbians and gay men, the aging, the poor in this country and elsewhere know that making justice is not a warm,”
Carter Heyward
“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!”
A. A. Hodge
“Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones”
Bible
“What was hard to endure is sweet to recall”
French Proverb
“Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.”
William Shakespeare
“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.”
Marianne Williamson
“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy”
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