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• Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Death, Horse

  John Ruskin (1902*). “Works”

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• I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  People, Forever, Looks

  Hilary Bailey, Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Frankenstein's Bride: Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity, intolerance, and uncleanliness lie in the foul-smelling alleys... The amiable dreamer of Nazareth has only contributed to increasing the hatred... What superstition and fanaticism on every side!

  Theodor Herzl

  Lying, Years, Hatred

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• Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

  Regina Maria Roche

  Disappointment, Heart, Blessing

  Regina Maria Roche (1870). “The Children of the Abbey: A Tale”, p.120

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• Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.

  Cyril Connolly

  Appreciation, Hands, People

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Quality, Vices, Ornaments

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2046, e-artnow

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• Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

  Maria Doyle Kennedy

  Men, Submissive, Expected

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Expression, Pleasure

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”

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• A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Clever, Men

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• It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

  George Eliot

  Sex, Inferiority, Facts

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.353

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• Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

  George Eliot

  Way, Offensive, Habit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

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• For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

  Vera Nazarian

  Daughter, Order, Imagination

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• That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Powerful, Shining, Wit

  Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.217

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• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

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• Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

  Ann Hasseltine Judson

  Men, Suffering, Needs

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• In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

  Barbara Holland

  Taverns, Easy, Cauldrons

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

  William Law

  Sweet, Light, Air

  William Law (1740). “An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being righteous over-much. An appeal to all that doubt, or disbelieve the truths of the Gospels”, p.117

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• Virtue is not always amiable.

  John Adams

  Virtue, Humankind

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (cont.) Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge. On self-delusion. On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of”, p.188

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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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• It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Class, Feelings

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• The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

  John Owen

  Kings, Communication, Eye

  John Owen (1679). “Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...”, p.197

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• Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Nature, Weakness, Humans

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.101

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• In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Science, Simple

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Men, Trying

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• I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

  Queen Victoria

  Good Woman, Reign, Royalty

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