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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.
music-is
That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to. David Gray
music-is minimum snobbery
But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. Arthur Phillips
music-is escapism private-things
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. Agnes Obel
music-is-my-life without-music dies
Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything. Ayumi Hamasaki
music-is united ifs
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired. Boethius
music-is blues-music heard
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard. Bruce Springsteen
music-is
Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic. Charles Spurgeon
music-is geometry
Music is geometry in time. Arthur Honegger
music-is affected
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. David Byrne