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“It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.”
Irish Proverb
“Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles”
William Blake
“Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar”
Irish Sayings
“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet”
Chinese Proverbs
“So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet”
Pam Brown