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“Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.”

May Home Eye Lasts Song Sweet Wings Thee His Eyes Sweetest Swans

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.”

Made Music Sweet Distance Melody Sweetest Sweet Music

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

“I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.”

Knows Children Sweet Bears Creatures Delicate Sweetest Sweet Child

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.”

Knows Should Kind Children Sweet Desirable Sweetest Sweet Child

Author:Charles Lamb

“Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!”

Night Sweet Delight This Life Vain Folly Melancholy Sweetest

Author:John Fletcher

“It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.”

Dies Sweet Drink Sweetest Homeland Right To Die

Author:Horace

“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.”

Way Christian Song Grows Voice Sweet Sorrow Quiet Angel Increase Notes Charity Graves Pursue Melody Harsh Sweetest Restful

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.”

Lasts Food Sweet Taste Cooking Sunset Culinary Sweetest Beautiful Sunset Sun Setting

Author:William Shakespeare

“Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.”

Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter

“The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

Ifs Dies Turns Sweet Summer Flow Dignity Deeds Smell Weed Sweetest Lilies Infection Frailty

Author:William Shakespeare

“Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.”

Light Sleep Sweet Bed Blind Noise Weary Chamber Sweetest Garlands Rosie Sweet Sleep

Author:Philip Sidney

“All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.”

Made Stills Lost Sweet Losing Fades Sweetest

Book:Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred Songs, Ballads, Etc

Source: Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred Songs, Ballads, Etc

“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past”

Men Long Ends Pain Lasts Past Attention Sun Dying Youth Taught Sweet Taste Harmony Tongue Breathe Setting Settings Vain Ease Sweetest Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”

Christian Peace Sweet Flower Prove Draws Strongest Touching Honey Bees Abiding Sweetest Wisest

Book:Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations

Source: Precious remedies against Satan's devices: being a companion for Christians of all denominations

“She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.”

Ifs Should Said Hands Faces Perfect Too Much Crazy Sweet Lays Profound Kitchen Nonsense Sugar Fades Cheeks Odds Bowls Sweetest Exhaustion Unconsciousness Delirium Deranged Alleyways

Author:Patrick Rothfuss