Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.

Everye white will have its blacke,
And everye sweete its soure.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks read more

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.

Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to read more

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a
harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of
beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two
noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his
Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and
light."

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

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

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

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the read more

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:
sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing read more

Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two
noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.