Makes It Sweet Though It Is Bitter.

“When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”

- Dale Carnegie


Try making it sweet though it is bitter.

- Ghostwise

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“We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.”

- Alfred E. Neuman


And they said the reasons were to improve them.

- Ghostwise

The Rose That Lives Its Little Hour.

Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

- William Cullen Bryant 'A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson'

Many keep plastic flowers because it last forever
But I would rather mourn the withered rose
That gave love its hour.

- Ghostwise

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The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.

- Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet.

The scent is bitter because the scent was sweet.

- Ghostwise

Honesty can be hard to swallow.

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world."

- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

Be an honest man first, before you lament about a lack of honesty in this world.

- Ghostwise

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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter."

- Denis Diderot (1713-84), French philosopher, writer

Lie is sweet where truth is bitter. Even when we realize, we still tend to go for the sweet than the bitter.

- Ghostwise