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FACES [Also see Beauty Dimples Expression Eyes Mouth Noses Smiles Women]

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
      - Lauren Bacall

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
      - Natalie Clifford Barney

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
      - Bible, Psalms (ch. IV, v. 6)

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
      - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (pt. II, sec. II)

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age
  With the dream of, meet death with.
      - Robert Browning, A Likeness

Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
      - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton,
        What Will He Do With It? (bk. II, title of ch. XI)

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
      - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
         (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)

And her face so fair
  Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IV, st. 29)

Yet even her tyranny had such a grace,
  The women pardoned all, except her face.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 113)

And to his eye
  There was but one beloved face on earth,
    And that was shining on him.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), The Dream (st. 2)

There is a garden in her face,
  Where roses and white lilies blow;
    A heavenly paradise is that place,
      Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.
        There cherries grow that none may buy,
          Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
      - Thomas Campion,
        claims these lines in note To Reader, in "Fourth Book of Airs"

The magic of a face.
      - Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S-----

He had a face like a benediction (blessing).
      - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote
         (bk. II, pt. I, ch. IV)   BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK  

The face the index of a feeling mind.
      - George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall

A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
      - Euripides

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
  The day's disasters in his morning face.
      - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 199)

Her face betokened all things dear and good,
  The light of somewhat yet to come was there
    Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,
      When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
      - Jean Ingelow, Margaret in the Xebec (st. 57)

How some they have died, and some they have left me,
  And some are taken from me; all are departed;
    All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
      - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), The Old Familiar Faces

The worst of faces still is human.
      - Johann Kaspar Lavater

A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (bk. I, ch. IV)

These faces in the mirrors
  Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora
         (pt. II, The House of Epimetheus, l. 72)

The light upon her face
  Shines from the windows of another world.
    Saints only have such faces.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo (pt. II, 6)

Oh! could you view the melody
  Of every grace,
    And music of her face,
      You'd drop a tear,
        Seeing more harmony
          In her bright eye,
            Than now you hear.
      - Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts (st. 2)

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish.
      - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)

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