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  • All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

    Heart   Light   Hue  
  • The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

    Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books
  • If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead.

  • If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

  • I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

    George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.132, University of Missouri Press
  • Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

  • Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

    Thomas De Quincey, Robert Morrison (2013). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings”, p.39, Oxford University Press
  • Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

    Blessed   Heart   Men  
  • More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

    Ballads   Libel   Shows  
    John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.80
  • Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

    Morning   Stars   Pain  
    William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.

    Party   Believe   Age  
  • I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

    Stupid   Thinking   Black  
  • Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

    Boys   Virtue   Blushing  
  • Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

    Names   Race   People  
  • I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

    David Hume (2007). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.213, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very quarrelsome, and of great pride and insolence. A whole troop of foreigners would not be able to withstand a single Gaul if he called his wife to his assistance, who is usually very strong, and with blue eyes

    Strong   Eye   Pride  
  • running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

    Fitness   Running   Nuts  
    Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press
  • There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

    Pain   Attitude   Night  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press
  • Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

    Soul   Said   Very Good  
  • We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

    Funny   Music   Dream  
    Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
  • People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

    Thinking   Hair   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

    Girl   Wrecks   Shade  
  • If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.

  • Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.

    Men   Sky   Judging  
    William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.333, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

    People   World   Height  
    Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.69, The Overlook Press
  • There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

    Pain   Kindness   Joy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик
  • Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.

    'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]
  • To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

    Lying   Order   Modesty  
  • Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence? That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights, which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision? Those, who know any thing of human nature, will not hesitate to answer these questions in the affirmative.

    Strong   Light   Errors  
    Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.378, Madison & Adams Press
  • The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

    Peace   Mean   Racism  
    Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)
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