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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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
Source: II Samuel (ch. X, v. 5)
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But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Robert Bland
Source: Anthology (p. 20), (edition 1813)
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His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
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?
Author: Robert Browning
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.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras
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Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
Author: Thomas Carew
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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 26)
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Within the midnight of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
Author: Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter)
Source: Pearl Wearers
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.
Author: Abraham Cowley
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.
Author: William Cowper
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.
Author: Richard Crashaw
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.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Persius (satire V, l. 246)
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When you see fair hair
Be pitiful.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Author: Thomas Gray
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.
Author: Charles G. Halpine (used pseudonym Miles O'Reilly)
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.
Author: Heinrich Heine
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.
Author: John Heywood
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.
Author: Thomas Hood
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?]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.
Author: James Howell (Howel)
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.
Author: William Dean Howells
Source: Through the Meadow
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs
Author: Irish Proverb
Source: None
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.
Author: Martin Luther
Source: None
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Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Author: Marian Anderson
Source: None
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
Author: Greek Proverb
Source: None
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
Author: James Brown
Source: None
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Author: Charles Lamb
Source: None
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