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• History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

  O. Henry

  Men, Fiction, Dull

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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• What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Rugged, Sensibility

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.165

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• There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

  Brander Matthews

  Character, Play, Oscars

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• It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

  Enya

  Castles, Want, Cold

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

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• The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

  Charles Lamb

  Glasses, Imagination, Quality

  Charles Lamb (1828). “Elia: essays which have appeared under that signature in the London magazine”, p.195

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• 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

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Memories, Writing, Past

  "Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931.

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• An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  Timothy Foote

  Memories, Powerful, Real

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• I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

  Dolly Parton

  Believe, Charity, Lines

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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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• 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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• Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Faces, Common

  1802 'To the Daisy', stanza 1 (published 1807).

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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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• She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Self, Long Ago

  "Ladder Of Years". Book by Anne Tyler, 1995.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Style, Rags, Dresses

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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