#charms

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. ↗

— Washington Irving

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There are charms made only for distant admiration. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee. ↗

— John Clare

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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

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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. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ↗

— Thomas Gray

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