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“And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way
in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave.”
Bible Quotes Source: Genesis (ch. XLII, v. 38)
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“When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho
until your beards be grown, and then return.”
Bible Quotes Source: II Samuel (ch. X, v. 5)
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“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. X, v. 30)
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“The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
righteousness.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 31)
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“And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
Has led and turned me by a single hair.”
Robert Bland Quotes Source: Anthology (p. 20), (edition 1813)
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“His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.”
Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes Source: Decameron (fifth day, Nov. 8)
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“Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the
gold
Used to hang and brush their bosoms?”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Men and Women--A Toccata of Galuppi's (st. 15)
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“And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras
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“Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.”
Thomas Carew Quotes Source: To A.L.--Persuasions to Love (l.37)
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“It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief
could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito
maeror levaretur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 26)
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“Within the midnight of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.”
Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter) Quotes Source: Pearl Wearers
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“An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Davideis (bk. II, l. 803)
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“His head,
Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,
But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, The Timepiece, l. 702)
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“Tresses, that wear
Jewels, but to declare
How much themselves more precious are.”
Richard Crashaw Quotes Source: Wishes to his (supposed) Mistress
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“She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Persius (satire V, l. 246)
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“When you see fair hair
Be pitiful.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. IV)
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“Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
And when she winds them round a young man's neck,
She will not ever set him free again.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Scenes from Faust (sc. The Hartz Mountain, l. 335), (Shelley's translation)
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“Loose his beard, and hoary hair
Stream's, like a meteor, to the troubled air.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: The Bard (I, 2, l. 5)
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“It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette,
It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;
'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,
'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--
'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.”
Charles G. Halpine (used pseudonym Miles O'Reilly) Quotes Source: Janette's Hair
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“And yonder sits a maiden,
The fairest of the fair,
With gold in her garment glittering,
And she combs her golden hair.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes Source: The Lorelei (st. 3)
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“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night.”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI, l.424)
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“But she is vanish'd to her shady home
Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Hero and Leander (116)
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“For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
[Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
Simplex munditiis?]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 5, 4), (Milton's translation)
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“One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.”
James Howell (Howel) Quotes Source: Familiar Letters (bk. 2, sect. 4, To T.D., Esq.)
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“The little wind that hardly shook
The silver of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--
A mystery of mysteries.
So he must often pause, and stoop,
An all the wanton ringlets loop
Behind her dainty ear--emprise
Of slow event and many sighs.”
William Dean Howells Quotes Source: Through the Meadow
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