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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell LowellRead
Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William ShakespeareRead
Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
William WilberforceRead
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
Leo TolstoyRead
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Anton ChekhovRead
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
Mark TwainRead
Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.
Patrick RothfussRead
How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.
D. H. LawrenceRead
In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.
Jacob GrimmRead
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
John GreenRead
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.
Fred RogersRead
When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
Ernest HemingwayRead
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair.
Paulo CoelhoRead
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie KennedyRead
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
Madeleine L'EngleRead
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl JungRead
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
Roald DahlRead
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
Antoine De Saint-ExuperyRead
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen BurstynRead
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.
Ann BeattieRead

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