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 Ben Jonson
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose, Cynthia's shining orb was made...
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
