Charms Quotes
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
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Margaret had always thought a man seduced a woman by making her aware of his charms: his body, his wealth, his kisses. How naive she had been. Ash Turner seduced her with the promise of her own self.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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There’s not much to me but animal instinct. Don’t look to me for a logical discourse on your charms.
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If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.
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What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.
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Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
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The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.
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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
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With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.
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Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.
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When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates towards the loved one, finds there a surface which arrests it, forcing it to return to its starting-point, and it is this repercussion of our own feeling which we call the other's feelings and which charms us more then than on its outward journey because we do not recognise it as having originated in ourselves.
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The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.
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But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.
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Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.
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I am flippant. That's one of my charms.
