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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
stardust
Maybe it's the stardust in my head. Carrie Underwood
stardust
We are not figuratively, but literally Stardust. Neil deGrasse Tyson
stardust form
I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. Laini Taylor
stardust
Yes, we too are stardust. Jostein Gaarder
mines
Mine is better than ours. Benjamin Franklin
mines
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you. Aeschylus
mines second son work youngest
My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift. Jim Parks
mines worked
I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.
mines
These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours. David Levithan
mines bike
Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine. Gary Fisher
mines shorthand
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. Tolkien
mines my-own
It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
mines liver
I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine. George Best