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... sense of being That bounds in youth's yet careless breast , Itself a star not borrowing light , But in its own glad essence bright . Moore . In girls we love what they are ; in lads what they promise . Goethe . Youth is perpetual ...
... sense of being That bounds in youth's yet careless breast , Itself a star not borrowing light , But in its own glad essence bright . Moore . In girls we love what they are ; in lads what they promise . Goethe . Youth is perpetual ...
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... sense of man , and all his mind possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in ...
... sense of man , and all his mind possess , As Beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to repress , And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of a heart - robbing eye , And wrapt in ...
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... sense is to the mind . La Rochefoucauld . Grace in a woman gains the affections sooner and secures them longer than anything else ; it is an outward and visible sign of an inward harmony of soul , as the want of it in men is the ...
... sense is to the mind . La Rochefoucauld . Grace in a woman gains the affections sooner and secures them longer than anything else ; it is an outward and visible sign of an inward harmony of soul , as the want of it in men is the ...
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... sense . Addison . We seldom appreciate beauty until it is on the decline , and then we cling to and treasure its wreck with jealous care . Beauty in the possession of an unthinking woman is more dangerous than a drawn sword in the hands ...
... sense . Addison . We seldom appreciate beauty until it is on the decline , and then we cling to and treasure its wreck with jealous care . Beauty in the possession of an unthinking woman is more dangerous than a drawn sword in the hands ...
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... sense may love like a madman , but never like a fool . La Rochefoucauld . Persons in the higher ranks of society , so exposed to ennui , are either rendered totally incapable of real love , or they love far more intensely than those in ...
... sense may love like a madman , but never like a fool . La Rochefoucauld . Persons in the higher ranks of society , so exposed to ennui , are either rendered totally incapable of real love , or they love far more intensely than those in ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Montesquieu Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Polly Esther Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth