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“A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.”

Earth Faces Alive Consequence Calm Ill Instance Fearful Qualifications Attending Propensity Breathless Anomalies

Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.”

Ifs Looks Long Done Running Faces Stars Vision Sun Clear Grace Tears Rivers Desert Look Up Thank God Tombs Blinded

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.”

Faces Sadness Prophecy Brightness

Author:Charles Dickens

“Often a silent face has voice and words.”

Faces Voice Silent

Author:Ovid

“Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.”

Thinking Hard Faces Courage Fear Not Fear Nothing Face Your Fears

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”

Want Hard Eye Faces Form Work Grace Toil Quench

Author:Walter Scott

“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”

Trying Faces Culture Sides Class Society Degrees Diversity Highest Social Justice Smile Distress Social Class Classes Of Society

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.”

Ifs Thinking Humans May Body Bigs Happens Faces Dies Courses Natural Differences Attitude Our Lives Easier Bounds Flesh Sooner Or Later Avoiding Natural Death

Book:The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom

Source: The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom

“My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a gorgeous floor.”

Feels Faces Heaven Grows Support Difficulty Breasts Brushes Gorgeous Beard Harpies

Author:Michelangelo

“Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.”

Children Problem Today Faces Social Originals Clubs Crush Mice Viewers Mickey Social Problems Problem Child

Author:Annette Funicello

“The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.”

Faces Class Praise Ignorant Discourse Flattery Flatterer

Author:Juvenal

“Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face”

Faces Singing Traveler Robbers

Author:Juvenal

“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Men Wells Looks Long Faces Form Voice My Own Tree Rivers Wave Remembered Pleasant Look Up Companion Bronx Old Trees

Book:The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

Source: The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems

“Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”

Men Mind Action Faces Crime Pure Appearance Former Operations Motive Latter

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”

Men Feels Self Pain Faces Bears Mark Shame Pity Scorn Disgrace Disdain Blushing Bashful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.”

Light Faces Heaven Changed Spring Grateful Shade Twilight

Book:The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter

Source: The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter

“Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.”

Men Wells Eye Able Faces Seeing Possibility Terrible Mirrors Incapacity

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.”

Eye Faces Forever New York Musical Crowds Manhattan Chorus

Book:Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

Source: Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

“And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.”

Whole Faces Feet Ocean Ruins Awful Iron Print Vast Ocean

Author:Robert Montgomery

“There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.”

Humans Faces Prophecy Observers Reflecting Countenance

Book:The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I don't know what's coming next and neither does anyone else. It's something that we do have to face but the thing is that a lot of people don't want to face it. And there's denial. If somebody says it, like me, everybody feels a little better that they can discuss it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Feels Littles Doe Faces Next Future Like Me Denial

Author:Art Buchwald

Two Use Together Faces Causes Laughter Resemblance

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.”

Ifs Knows Today Faces Jesus Left Heaven Behinds Forever Return Promise Judgment Bible Faithful Glorious Do You Know Followers Wrath Left Behind

Author:Billy Graham

“Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.”

Faces Beauty Fairs Dear Disgrace Enchanting

Book:The Iliad ...

Source: The Iliad ...

“From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.”

Faces Models Labor Police Safety Locals Appropriate Wipe Antidote Hurdle Food Safety Local Food Hurdling Obstacles

Author:Joel Salatin

“I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.”

Jobs Faces Given Difficult Space Situation Issues Theory Tough Crisis Focused Instance Mess Restoring Times Of Crisis

Author:Christine Lagarde

“The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.”

Whole Able Faces Form Quality Receptive Beholder

Book:I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

“Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.”

People Giving Kind Body Faces Expression Familiar Typical Portraits Portraiture

Book:Degas by Degas

Source: Degas by Degas

“Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.”

Faces Quality Simplicity Enthusiasm Charm Charming Face To Face Candor

Author:Agnes Repplier

“There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.”

Way Mean Long Faces Song Walks Five Hair Clothes Stones Presses Rolling Conferences Conceit Unfolding Rolling Stones Sinister Press Conferences

Author:Pete Hamill

“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”

Looks Light Faces Fall Figures Color Models Weight Tone Proportion Joints Texture Scrutinize

Author:Howard Pyle

“Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.”

Kind Philosophy Reality Faces Sound Healthy True Happiness

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.”

Men World Should Faces Purpose Order Universe Born Answers Achieve This World Every Man Practicals Weekend Schemes Propositions Metaphysical Mystic

Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living

“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us - for that moment only.”

Real Moments Hands Faces Form Passion Grows Change Perfect Sea Intellectual Insight Mood Hills Attractive Excitement Tone That Moment

Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?”

Art Faces Effort Civilization Waste Happenings Art Is Resources Theater Pops Rational Absurd Desperate Unconscious Camps Rescue Absurdity Plague Pits Face To Face Pop Art Bedding

Author:Norman Mailer

“I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.”

Trying Firsts Believe Facts Problem Bigs Faces Used Son First Time Cancer My Son Terrified Big Problems

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older I would take it as a compliment.”

People Ifs Years Wanted Faces Young Used Girl Lines Compliment Nails Wrinkles

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.”

People Important Faces Fighting Water Drink Healthy Decided Important Things Gravity Invasion

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Sometimes Moments Body Hands Faces Desire Gratitude Urges Overwhelming Pulse Kneeling Deep Gratitude Overwhelming Urge

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.”

Faces Given Essentials Projects Artistic Lacking Impotence Irritated

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.”

Mind Reason Stories Faces Force Objects Importance Obstacles Pursue

Author:Madame de Stael

“I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.”

Knows Way Looks Children Eye Faces Worry Love You Strange Sweet Drink Concerned Mirrors Noses Muscles Your Face Cramps

Author:Hafez

“One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.”

Men Faces Names Simple Color One Day Daughter Modesty

Author:Joseph Joubert

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Faces Given Window Look Up Eastern

Author:Freya Stark

“White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.”

Hard Faces Grows White Red Garden Rose Blow East Pale Vow Pardon Fright Maidens Rose Garden Red Rose White Rose Snowdrops

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.”

Ifs Giving Faces Values Accepting Pieces Advice Thumbs One Piece Face Value

Author:Ernest Gaines

“In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.”

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.”

People Faces Artist Hate Beauty Mets Load Pretty Face Pretty Picture

Author:David Hockney

“Faces are the most interesting things we see; other people fascinate me, and the most interesting aspect of other people - the point where we go inside them - is the face. It tells all.”

People Faces Interesting Aspect Most Interesting Interesting Things Portraiture

Book:David Hockney photographs

Source: David Hockney photographs

“The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”

Faces Easy Nervous Occasions Appropriate Funeral Strain

Book:What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era

Source: What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era

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