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  If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, White, Coward

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1243, Oxford University Press

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• I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That's served in the past to create an image of me where I'm always frowning or looking angry.

  Demi Moore

  Past, Annoyance, Paparazzi

  "Glamour Interview: Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys Talk!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.glamour.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Atheism

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• ... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Eye, Shining

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.71

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• It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Men, Land

  "Lincoln on Democracy" by Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt, Fordham University Press, (p. 128), September 1, 2004.

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• Almost every organization... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Organization, Two, World

  KENNETH E. BOULDING (1953). “THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION”

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• It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."

  Evan Jones

  Country, Attitude, War

  Source: collider.com

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• Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

  Hafez

  Doors, Choices, Contentment

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• The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Education, Teacher, School

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• If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

  James Ussher

  Smile, Winning, People

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• The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence. That was how these creatures looked now, these beautiful pilgrims of rarefied light, standing around the girl with the dirty-face and the tartan skirt and the boy with the wounded hand who was frowning in his sleep.

  Philip Pullman

  Beautiful, Girl, Distance

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• A girl can dream." His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?" "Not exactly," I said, frowning at his word choice. Monster, indeed. "Mostly I dream about being with you forever.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Dream, Eyebrows

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

  William Golding

  Mazes, Lost, Vague

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to fill in the position of the planets at their moment of birth. It was dull work, requiring much consultation of timetables and calculation of angles. “I’ve got two Neptunes here,” said Harry after a while, frowning down at his piece of parchment, “that can’t be right, can it?” “Aaaaah,” said Ron, imitating Professor Trelawney’s mystical whisper, “when two Neptunes appear in the sky, it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Sky, Two, Glasses

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• I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

  Jim Butcher

  Karma, Thinking, Lips

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.270, Penguin

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• Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Children, Grieving, Long

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• Sean pushes up to his feet and stands there. I look at his dirty boots. Now I've offended him, I think. He says, "Other people have never been important to me, Kate Connolly. Puck Connolly." I tip my face up to look at him, finally. The blanket falls off my shoulders, and my hat, too, loosened by the wind. I can't read his expression--his narrow eyes make it difficult. I say, "And now?" Kendrick reaches to turn up the collar on his jacket. He doesn't smile, but he's not as close to frowning as usual. "Thanks for the cake.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dirty, Fall, Eye

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• Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods. "Marr...iage.

  Isaac Marion

  Two, Littles, Empty

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.

  Veronica Roth

  Men, Looks

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.33, HarperCollins UK

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• 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

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• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Wrinkles, Botox, Causes

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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  Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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