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• Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clouds, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.125

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• I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Sarcastic, Fire, Blood

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• Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.

  Michele Bardsley

  Cute, Sarcasm, Flirting

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.107, Penguin

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• Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

  Joseph Murphy

  Men, Sweat, Trying

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.74, GENERAL PRESS

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• I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Morning, Heart

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• Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

  John Masefield

  Success, Leadership, Men

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• Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Night, Clouds, Hopeful

  "Hope, Faith, and Love". Poem by Friedrich Schiller (circa 1786), as translated in "The Common School Journal", Volume IX, edited by Horace Mann (p. 38), 1847.

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• Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her. His lush lips inched into a surprised but pleased smile. "You were naked," she told him. His grin spread; his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "And tied up..." He arched his eye brows in smug expectation. "I did not know the idea of bondage would please you." "Oh, I love the idea of typing you up." She paused dramatically. "Just like in my dream, you'll be secured to an ant-hill and the little things will eat you alive.

  Gena Showalter

  Dream, Eye, Hands

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Nymph King”, p.133, Harlequin

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• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  Laini Taylor

  Two, Arms, Sun

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• At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Ideas

  "The Freedom of the Press". Unused preface to George Orwell "Animal Farm" (August 17, 1945), first published in "The Times Literary Supplement", September 15, 1972.

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• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Latin, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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• Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

  Alan Watts

  Secret, Wipe, Take A Deep Breath

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• Be forewarned,' the vamp said, 'if I learn that there's anything romantic happening here, I'm sending him packing...less a few body parts.' Kylie's mouth dropped open. 'Romantic? Oh, please, he's old. He's as old as you.' Burnett's brow creased. 'Which is my point.' His frown deepened. 'Not that I'm *that* old.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mouths, Body, Said

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• She felt dirty all over and looking over Sebastian, sweat on his brow and his naked torso barely covered by the sheets, she had to swallow back bile at what she'd just done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dirty, Sweat, Naked

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• My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Race, Blood

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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Business, Spring, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.311, Penguin

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• Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

  Susan Faludi

  Marriage, Panic, Single Women

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hope, Long, Situation

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• What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Men, Sweat

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• I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

  Ken Follett

  House, Mirth, My Favorite

  "Ken Follett: Prolific writer, fan of 19th-century novels". Interview by Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 23, 2012.

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• I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Art, Crazy, Men

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• When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

  William H. Gass

  Stupid, Book, Reader

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• The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

  Peter York

  Art, Sunday, Suffering

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• What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

  Robert Breault

  Pride, Sweat, Effort

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• Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Wrinkles, Habit

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