Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so read more

Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you

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.

Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing read more

Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two
noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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."

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.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

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.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.