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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;She feels no biting pang the while she sings;Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.


— Contemplation. Compare: "The sad vicissitude of things", Laurence Sterne, Sermon xvi.

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The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.

kenneth clark

— Ch. I: The Naked and the Nude

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The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist we can all see these unions: the marriages in which tenderness meets loyalty, where generosity sweetens moroseness, where a sense of beauty eases some aridity of the spirit, are not so easy for outsiders to recognize; the parties themselves may not be fully aware of such elements in a good match.

Robertson Davies

— The Pleasures of Love

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The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school - tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.


— Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 325. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.


— Contemplation. Compare: "The sad vicissitude of things", Laurence Sterne, Sermon xvi.

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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings, Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.


— Richard Gifford, Contemplation. Samuel Johnson altered the second line to: "All at her work the village maiden sings"; and in the third line substituted "while for "as".

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It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.


— Elizabeth Prentiss, p. 250. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Nothing sweetens life like a pleasant disposition.


— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.111

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