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• I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Medicine, Rogues

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Birthday, History

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  P. D. James

  May, Moments, Superficial

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.26, Vintage

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• Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Strength, Men

  "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 3, 1912.

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• I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Grace, Want, Butlers

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

  John Mason Brown

  Women, Light, Becoming

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• When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

  Akhenaton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Stars

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• You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Conceited, Long

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books

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• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sleep, Humility, Trying

  St. Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Interior Castle: or the Mansions”, p.83, TAN Books

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• The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

  Washington Irving

  Distance, Book, Reading

  Washington Irving (1865). “Works: Complete in 27 Volumes. Tales of a traveller”, p.188

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• I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

  Judith Krantz

  Two, Energy, Sense Of Humor

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

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• It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

  James M. Barrie

  Needs, Matter, Ifs

  'What Every Woman Knows' (performed 1908, published 1918) act 1

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• It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Mean, Interesting

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Looks, Crowds

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lucky Charms, Done, Literature

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.166, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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• Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error.

  Tasha Tudor

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

  William Cowper

  House, Solitude, Alarms

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Confidence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2870, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.

  George Dzundza

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

  James Theodore Bent

  Strong, Belief, Newborn

  James Theodore Bent, Al. N. Oikonomidēs (1965). “Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks”, Chicago, Argonaut

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

  Saffron Burrows

  Home, Thinking, Location

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• The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Thinking, Office

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.213, Modern Library

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• Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Lying, Dirty

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

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