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• Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, Two, Betrayed

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• The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in It and by It. She passed her days and her nights at the feet of her Divine Son... Her love for her hidden God shone in her countenance and communicated its ardor to all about her.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Powerful, Blessed, Son

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Prophecy, Reflecting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

  Boethius

  Fate, Destiny, Feet

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

  Richard III of England

  Character, Heart, Kissing

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Evil, Inability, United States

  "The Works of Alexander Hamilton".

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• The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our relationships. We have a greater capacity to love each other. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in our character. As a result, we become increasingly more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things more clearly.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Character, Godly

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• The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Spiritual, Inner Beauty, Skins

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• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

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• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Flames, Pro Life

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1971). “Something beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta”, HarperCollins

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• The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek, and lowly. It is without envy or pride. It is selfless because it seeks nothing in return. It does not countenance evil or ill will, nor rejoice in iniquity; it has no place for bigotry, hatred, or violence. It refuses to condone ridicule, vulgarity, abuse, or ostracism. It encourages diverse people to live together in Christian love regardless of religious belief, race, nationality, financial standing, education, or culture.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

  J.R. Ward

  People, Brain, Body

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.184, Penguin

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• Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

  Jane Austen

  Night, Thinking, Together

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Beautiful, Artist, Player

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• Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

  Washington Irving

  Happiness, Mirrors, Light

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.148, Penguin

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• What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration.

  James E. Faust

  Eye, Dedication, Light

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• The angles even
  Draw strength from gazing on its glance,
  Though none its meaning fathom may;
  The world's unwither'd countenance
  Is bright as at creation's day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Sun, Gazing

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• Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

  Else Lasker-Schuler

  Grief, My Smile, Should

  Else Lasker-Schüler (2002). “Selected Poems”, Green Integer Books

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• A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Victory, Trends, Might

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

  George Washington

  Matter, Serious, Manners

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• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Character, Thinking

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• Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Adventure, Knights, Soul

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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• Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  California, Southern, Actors

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