Quotations on Sweetness | Quotations: 8 | Pages: 1
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by Matthew Arnold
(December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888) |
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. |
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by Jonathan Swift
(November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745) |
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. |
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More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. |
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by Ben Jonson
(June 11, 1572 - August 6, 1637) |
Sweet meat must have sour sauce. |
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by Matthew Arnold
(December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888) |
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the ... |
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by Matthew Arnold
(December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888) |
The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
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by William Wordsworth
(April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850) |
The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. |
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