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• Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

  Bruce Catton

  Sunset, Eye, Glowing

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• But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Civilization, Camping

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.290

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• There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Happiness, Perfect, Maintenance

  Deborah Turbeville, Louis Auchincloss (1994). “Deborah Turbeville's Newport remembered: a photographic portrait of a gilded past”, ABRAMS

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• What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

  Tessa Dare

  Order, Little Sister, Earth

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• We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Assuming, Looking Good

  "Linjustice". www.newyorker.com. March 5, 2012.

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• The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidence in themselves and happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they do have and of all the opportunities that come their way.

  Benjamin Spock

  Growing Up, Children, Parenting

  "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care". 8th Edition,

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• And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Situations In Life, Stories, Scene

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.

  Gilbert Adair

  Sleep, Cat, Fire

  Gilbert Adair (2014). “The Dreamers”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.

  Steven Pressfield

  Heart, Warrior, Fire

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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• I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Literature, Castles

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

  Mira Nair

  New York, Giving, Feelings

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• I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Play, Nerd

  Interview with Tim Leong, timleong.com. April 2008.

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• I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

  Myrna Loy

  Spring, Kids, Freckles

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

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• Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.

  Gena Showalter

  Warrior, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Peace, Thinking

  "Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

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• There are a lot of homely women in women’s studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches - they’re just mad at the beautiful girls.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

  "Is Male Studies A Sham?" by Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. April 15, 2010.

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• My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

  Michael Caine

  Nice, Hero, Dark

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• It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

  John Milton

  Love, Sorry, Home

  'Comus' (1637) l. 745

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• Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

  Phillips Brooks

  Soul, Way, Pillars

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient in the main. Yet one, a man apart, who found me fair and gave his heart. Now Lord, that I have grown more sage . . . into middle age. I only ask, as face grows lines of countenance, it be described as kind; that wrinkles by my eyes will show a little humor as I go; that I may view my humble scene with glance of one content, serene, through grateful, shining eyes that see the blessings you have given me.

  Ruth Perry

  Strong, Kindness, Grateful

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• The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Games, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I did. But the good news is that I never considered myself beautiful at all. And I still don't.

  Goldie Hawn

  Beautiful, Girl, Personality

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• Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Baby, Gratitude

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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