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141 " The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. "
― Giacomo Casanova , The Story of My Life
142 " Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
143 " The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome. "
― , The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
144 " Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue. "
― Isabel Allende , Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (Eagle and Jaguar, #2)
145 " I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father's loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below. "
146 " We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us. You know? The things that people think define them aren’t valid either. You could see a girl who’s completely covered head-to-toe and who looks like the sweetest little thing in the world, and she could be the most horrendous human being on the planet inside. "
147 " We look before and after, And pine for what is not:Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.Yet if we could scornHate, and pride, and fear;If we were things bornNot to shed a tear,I know not how thy joy we everShould come near. "
― Percy Bysshe Shelley , The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems
148 " The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately. "
― William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet
149 " You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it. "
― , The Boys of Summer
150 " The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it. "
151 " Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,And in the violet-imbroider'd valeWhere the love-lorn nightingaleNightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pairThat likest thy Narcissus are? "
― John Milton , The Complete Poetry
152 " You are the sweetest thug I've ever known. "
― J.R. Ward
153 " And, indeed it is a very pleasant thing for to ride forth in the dawning of a Springtime day. For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay; then do the growing things of the earth smell the sweetest in the freshness of the early daytime—the fair flowers, the shrubs, and the blossoms upon the trees; then doth the dew bespangle all the sward as with an incredible multitude of jewels of various colors; then is all the world sweet and clean and new, as though it had been fresh created for him who came to roam abroad so early in the morning. "
― Howard Pyle , The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
154 " I know these are only dreams. I know these days are long past. I wake to a dream in which Hammer’s breath has stopped, and mine with it, and hearts have gone to a quiet sunny meadow with the sweetest little cottage in the middle, with a millwheel and a stream. Our bodies will lie tangled until they become earth, like roses twining so closely there is no beginning and no end, and only the shades of beauty that were their growing.Every dream I ever had as a child has come true, simply because Hammer loved me. Perhaps this one will too. "
― Amy Lane , Hammer & Air
155 " You look worse today than you did when you had two blackeyes.”“Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things. "
― , So Over You
156 " The sweetest of all sounds is praise. "
157 " Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. "
158 " Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. "
159 " The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. "