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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.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Helen Keller

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.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Thomas Gray

There's a sweetness to it.

David Rockwell

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The salt in the cookie is a plus, and it offsets the cloying sweetness of the cream a little.

Kate Jansen

Caramelized onions add a complex sweetness to any dish - and work especially well with the pork in this sausage. My mother made sausage with marjoram on holidays, so this is a special flavor for me. This isn't necessarily a classic sausage flavor combination, but it's one that really works.

Brian Polcyn

...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We enjoy traditional music, ... but we like the stuff that is a little bit challenging and edgy. You can also say that a lot of the Tom Tom Club stuff has a real sweetness to it. We're certainly not opposed to sweetness in music.

Chris Frantz

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

Georg Trakl

He's going to be a great foil for the guys on our show. Forest has always impressed me with his range. He's got an incredible sweetness and soulfulness but also strength. It's a rare combination for an actor and that appealed to me with this character.

Shawn Ryan

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran

He pulls people into his silence. Marlon Brando had something similar. Brando had, deep within his vortex, an explosive rage. What Heath has instead is tremendous sweetness.

Rose Rosetree

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.

Thomas Gray

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Mitchell Burgess

There would be a very nice small book in it about another time and era in America, a kind of sweetness and friendship.

David Halberstam

There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.

Tish Grier

ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J.

Ambrose Bierce

IT takes time for a fruit to mature and acquire sweetness and become eatable; time is a prime factor for most good fortunes.

Atharva Veda

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadnes.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

I've been playing since '93 so that's the game I play the most, ... I make sure I get it every year. It was on Genesis in '93, '94 and '95. That's when you could get Walter Payton; you could get Chicago '85, no problem. You couldn't tackle 'Sweetness.'

Ryan Gomes

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Chinua Achebe

She knows her Beloved, the Architect of karma, and she speaks words of ambrosial sweetness.

Guru Nanak

We have an array of gums that can fit the individual's taste, with just the right amount of sweetness that you need.

Jessica Schilling

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

Glenda Bailey

They won't be happy until they squeeze every bit of sweetness and joy out of life, it seems.

Gene Grabowski

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Edward Hoagland

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.

E. B. White