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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the read more
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.
Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks read more
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prevail.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prevail.
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to read more
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a
harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of
beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two
noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his
Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and
light."
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an
interminable tedious sweetness.