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sweeten QUOTES

1 " When you sweeten your knowledge and experience with your thoughts, it becomes your wisdom. "

2 " Every morning, sweeten your coffee with some love and you will sweeten your day with happiness. "

3 " Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you. "

― Mitch Albom , The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

4 " A godly man in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. We know that one drop of sourness, or one drop of gall will make bitter a great deal of it; but if you put a spoonful of gall into a cup of sugar, it will embitter that. Now it is otherwise in heaven: one drop of sweetness will sweeten a great deal of sour affliction, but a great deal of sourness and gall will not embitter a soul who sees the glory of heaven that is to come. "

― Jeremiah Burroughs

5 " Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creekside and each had two or more skinned torsos dangling by rope from sagged limbs, venison left to the weather for two nights and three days so the early blossoming of decay might round the flavor, sweeten that meat to the bone. "

― Daniel Woodrell , Winter's Bone

6 " But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar.
So that's us: processed corn, walking. "

― Michael Pollan , The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

7 " In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;
Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,
Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,
Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude. "

― John Clare , The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

8 " How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth "

9 " One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart. "

― Dean Koontz , A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

10 " The small courtesies sweeten life the greater ennoble it. "

11 " Put off thy cares with thy clothes so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. "

12 " Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain. "

13 " Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. "