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“When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful”

Kind Heaven Answers Destiny Sweet Grateful Treated

Author:Mariah Carey

“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.”

Heart Mother Voice Answers Feet Sweet Arms Return Sight Dancing Spread Infant

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”

Answers Clear Dying Sweet Blow Scar Echoes Purple Horns Cliffs Replying

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.”

Want Care Answers Kindness Sweet Affection

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn't taste as sweet.”

Feels Doe Answers Struggle Sweet Taste Triumph Work In Progress

Book:Untitled

Source: Untitled

“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.”

Ifs Form Death Answers Accepting Dying Sweet Eternal Transformation Sympathy Affirmative Love Death Someone Dying Loved One Dying Sweet Death

Book:Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography

“You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.”

Looks Spirit Answers Sweet Nonsense Chasing Hurrying

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang ... On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I'm laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.”

Knows Men Doe Play Answers Laughing Know How Too Much Player Sweet Approach Musician Singers Plenty Sense Of Humor Trumpets Incomparable Impeccable

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.”

People Ifs Needs Looks Asks Answers Our Lives Sweet This Life Serving Assurance Serving Others Calvary Sacrificial Love

Author:John Piper