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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

Love, Teacher, Mother

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

Education, Bitter, Roots

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
Bob Marley

Battle, Victory, Talk

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Rose, Call, Name

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare

Good, Night, Sorrow

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Music, Start

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

Music, Himself, Nor

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

Keep, Mad, Heaven

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Adversity, Ugly, Head

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

True, Mercy, Nobility

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Book, Friends, Talk

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience, Bitter, Fruit

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Give

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau

Justice, Injustice, Musical

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Happy, Girl, Living

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

Love, Money, Power

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Chanakya

Wise, Give, Others

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus

Words, Wine, Celebrate

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks

Love, Men, Christmas

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
Michael Jackson

Someone, Why, Whole

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, War, Nothing

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

Sometimes, Stand

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

True, Feeling, Write

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti

Love, Nature, Women

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving

Heart, Friends, Sun

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
John Keats

Heard, Melodies, Unheard

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Learning, Serenity

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