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Letter "S" » sweetness
«Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.»
Author: Barbara Cheney
| About:
Gardens
| Keywords:
activities, blush, blushes, gardening, hobbies, sociable, sweetness, unseen
«It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
affection, passion, sanctifies, sanctifying, sweetness, The Passion, to it
«I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority»
Author: E. B. White
| About:
Future,
Nature
| Keywords:
Bright Future, optimistic, outwit, proving, respecting, seniority, sweetness, tasting
«Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.»
«In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
bear upon, real life, real name, respects, sweetness, The Rose
«In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.»
«In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dew, dews, finds, friendship, laughter, morning, pleasures, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, sharing, sweetness, The Morning After
«I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.»
«It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
after, crowd, crowding, crowd out, easy, independence, in the midst, keeps, man of the world, midst, opinions, perfect, perfecting, perfects, solitude, sweetness, The Crowd, The Great, To Live
«It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
independence, in the midst, midst, sweetness
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