You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
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Socrates
The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Matthew Arnold
Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Ben Jonson
More Quotes By Anthony T. Hincks
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Know thyself.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
