Best sweet & rising Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

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Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .”

Air College Sweet Perfection Towns Train Bars Rising Dry Overwhelmed Montana Neon Funky Rising Up Festivities Sentinels Courthouses

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.”

Morning Sweet Bird Breaths Rising Charm Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 2

Author:John Milton

“The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.”

“The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.”

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Charles Dickens: 20 Illustrated Classics in One Volume: Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield…

“I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs”

Littles Song Three Morning Sun Sweet Singing Bird Sat Rising Popular Song Doorstep

Author:Bob Marley

“And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."”

Believe Wells Kind Records Honest Sweet Roots Bitter Being Honest Rising Bitter Sweet

Author:Mike Pesca

“One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.”

Soul Spirit Water Sweet Higher Tragedy Rising Melancholy Drowning

Author:Robert Bly

“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun”

Thinking World Lasts Sun This World Sweet Rising Weary

Book:The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle