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“As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.”

Grows Talking Virtue Mouths Honey Virtuous

Author:Ivan Panin

“Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.”

World Wells May Children Soul Cases Hell Sweet Thousand Mouths Ease Honey Alas Petty Nests Guarded Hives Nectar Vexation Wasps

Book:Emblems divine and moral

Source: Emblems divine and moral

“It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.”

Has Beens Said Sin Mouths Destruction Honey Bees Tails

Author:Hosea Ballou

“I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks.”

Knows Way Kind Whole Causes Walks Talking Mouths Let Me South Honey Cousin Slides My Cousin

Author:Eloise Greenfield

“I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.”

Love Sweet Mouths Honey Spit Eros Second Best

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“O name of Mary! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of Her devout clients!”

Heart Joy Names Mouths Ears Melody Honey Mary Clients

Author:Anthony of Padua

“Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.”

Heart Pleasure Mouths Luxury Honey Tails Mirth Enticing

Book:The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].

Source: The school of the heart, or The heart of itself gone away from God brought back again to him and instructed by him, by Francis Quarles [really by C. Harvey. Adapted from B. van Haeften's Schola cordis]. To which is added, The learning of the heart by the same author [really by C. Harvey. Ed. by C.E. De Coetlogon. Issued as vol. 2 of Emblems divine and moral, by F. Quarles. Wanting the title-leaf and plates].

“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

Knows Long Hands Lasts Faces Turns Know How Missing Taste Letting Go Kissing Mouths Warm Tongue Cups Breathing Honey Kiss Me Jellicoe Road

Author:Melina Marchetta

“There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).”

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.”

Young Girl Mouths Gold Smell Dust Honey Sunlight Violet

Book:Poem without a hero and selected poems

Source: Poem without a hero and selected poems