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Letter "C" » charms
«And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee»
«Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
charms, husband, lover, terrifies, terrify
«Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul»
«Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.»
«A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
charms, conjugal, parental, rendered, serene, Spring and
«After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
charms, deficient, divinities, divinity, fascinated, regular
«A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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accomplishments, admirer, admirers, attendants, charms, coquette, coquettes, lady friend, mole, moles, young lady
«Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.»
«Come, O sisters - let's make virtue our charms. Let's join the Saints, and enjoy the pleasure of the Lord's Love.»
«Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
charms, endeared, endearing, endears, fondly, gaze
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