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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.
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A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
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