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 Henry Burton
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.
Penny wise pound foolish.
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.
