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“There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift
thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. IV, v. 6)
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“It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of
faces there should be none alike.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes Source: Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. II)
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“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
With the dream of, meet death with.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: A Likeness
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“Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good
heart is a letter of credit.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: What Will He Do With It? (bk. II, title of ch. XI)
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“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)
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“And her face so fair
Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 29)
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“Yet even her tyranny had such a grace,
The women pardoned all, except her face.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 113)
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“And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Dream (st. 2)
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“There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.
There cherries grow that none may buy,
Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.”
Thomas Campion Quotes Source: claims these lines in note To Reader, in "Fourth Book of Airs"
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“The magic of a face.”
Thomas Carew Quotes Source: Epitaph on the Lady S-----
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“He had a face like a benediction (blessing).”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (bk. II, pt. I, ch. IV)
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“The face the index of a feeling mind.”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: Tales of the Hall
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“Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Deserted Village (l. 199)
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“Her face betokened all things dear and good,
The light of somewhat yet to come was there
Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,
When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.”
Jean Ingelow Quotes Source: Margaret in the Xebec (st. 57)
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“How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes Source: The Old Familiar Faces
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“A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this
particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not
a line is written, save perhaps a date.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. I, ch. IV)
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“These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. II, The House of Epimetheus, l. 72)
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“The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 6)
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“Oh! could you view the melody
Of every grace,
And music of her face,
You'd drop a tear,
Seeing more harmony
In her bright eye,
Than now you hear.”
Richard Lovelace Quotes Source: Orpheus to Beasts (st. 2)
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“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--
Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--”
Christopher Marlowe Quotes Source: Faustus
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“Human face divine.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 44)
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“In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 853)
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“You have your face bare; I am all face.
[Fr., Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout face.]”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Essays (vol. I, ch XXXV), answer of a naked beggar who was asked whether he was not cold
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“Cheek . . .
Flushing white and mellow'd red;
Gradual tints, as when there glows
In snowy milk the bashful rose.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Odes of Anacreon--Ode XV (l. 27)
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“With faces like dead lovers who died true.”
Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) Quotes Source: Indian Summer
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