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 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. 
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.
 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. 
Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
 The sweetest thing that ever grew
 Beside a human door.  
 The sweetest thing that ever grew
 Beside a human door. 
 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." 
 Everye white will have its blacke,
 And everye sweete its soure.  
 Everye white will have its blacke,
 And everye sweete its soure.