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«Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Beauty,
Grief,
Pain
| Keywords:
fleeting, fleets, plain, souvenir, Souvenirs, The Fleet, The Lonely, The Visitors, visitor
«Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; / In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet.»
«He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
exceptional, heard, judged, mysterious, ordinary, plain, plainer, plainest
«Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.»
«If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- ''My Heart Laid Bare.'' But -- this little book must be true to its title.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitious, bare, fancy, Human thought, immortal, laid, Open and, plain, Plain Words, publish, publishes, renown, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, sentiment, simple A, straight, title, true to, unencumbered, universal
«A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
benefit, Be Free, doses, dosing, drugs, in general, persists, plain, warning
«Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
animals, broad, broadest, broads, countenance, countenanced, countenances, diffident, expression, faced, flowers, hollyhock, hollyhocks, honest, much as, pensive, plain, sad, sunflower, sunflowers, upright
«A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
hypocrite, invariably, moralize, moralizes, moralizing, plain, plainer, plainest, usually
«Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crying, plain, Pretty Woman, refuge, ruin
«Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
clothes, curiosities, curiosity, endurance, eye, few, good-humored, good humor, How to, humor, humored, humors, Know how, old, plain, plainer, plainest, plain clothes, Plain People, qualification, qualifications, shod, shoes, silence, speech, take, too much, vast, Vaster, vastest
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