"Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light."

-- Joseph Addison

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“If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.”
“To the valiant actions speak alone.”

Source : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189
“To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose.”
“Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.”
“Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.”

Source : Theodore Parker “Works”
“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”
“I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.”
“We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.”

Source : Wall Street Journal, November 14, 1969.

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