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1 " Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. "
― John Muir
2 " My lips swelled with red freshness, my chest heaved proudly with a pair of pointed African drums, my face tempted with its sweetness like Kilimanjaro waters and my height spoke a language only a Maasai warrior knew. "
― Gloria D. Gonsalves , The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations
3 " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. "
― Paul Hoffman , The Last Four Things (The Left Hand of God, #2)
4 " Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting. "
5 " This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present. "
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , The Little Prince
6 " Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. "
7 " In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy, his indifference and apathy drowned in a Cheshire pond. "
― Sharon Kay Penman , When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)
8 " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air. "
9 " 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. "
