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Secrets with girls , like guns with boys , Are never valued till they make a noise . ' Tis the work Of many a dark hour , many a prayer , To bring the heart back from an infant gone . Crabbe . Willis . When a girl ceases to blush , she ...
Secrets with girls , like guns with boys , Are never valued till they make a noise . ' Tis the work Of many a dark hour , many a prayer , To bring the heart back from an infant gone . Crabbe . Willis . When a girl ceases to blush , she ...
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... never comes again . Shakspeare . Stoddard . People generally are what they are made by education . and company between the ages of fifteen and twenty- five . Chesterfield . Reckless youth makes rueful age . How changingly for ever veers ...
... never comes again . Shakspeare . Stoddard . People generally are what they are made by education . and company between the ages of fifteen and twenty- five . Chesterfield . Reckless youth makes rueful age . How changingly for ever veers ...
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... never twang his dart From any string that's formed by art . When Beauty triumphs , ah , beware ! Her smile is hope , her frown despair . And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph , a naiad , or a grace , Of finer form or lovelier face ...
... never twang his dart From any string that's formed by art . When Beauty triumphs , ah , beware ! Her smile is hope , her frown despair . And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph , a naiad , or a grace , Of finer form or lovelier face ...
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... never known Thought , feeling , taste , harmonious to its own ? Who hath not paused while Beauty's pensive eye Asked from his heart the homage of a sigh ? Who hath not owned , with rapture - smitten frame , The power of grace , the ...
... never known Thought , feeling , taste , harmonious to its own ? Who hath not paused while Beauty's pensive eye Asked from his heart the homage of a sigh ? Who hath not owned , with rapture - smitten frame , The power of grace , the ...
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... never allow beauty in a face that has an odd- looking bonnet over it . Bulwer . Beauty is God's handwriting , a wayside sacrament . Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye , In every gesture dignity and love . Milton . O fatal ...
... never allow beauty in a face that has an odd- looking bonnet over it . Bulwer . Beauty is God's handwriting , a wayside sacrament . Grace was in all her steps , heaven in her eye , In every gesture dignity and love . Milton . O fatal ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge 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 Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure 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