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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

God, Hope, Word

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid

Death, Idea, Worried

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Girl, Sorry

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

Life, Age, Alone

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison

Justice, Cannot, Violence

Pop music will never be low brow.
Lady Gaga

Music, Pop, Low

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Chesterfield

Beauty, Time, Hours

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Charles Wolfe

Smile, Forget, Tomorrow

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
Herman Melville

Live, Lines, Thou

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
Ethel Waters

Living, Able, Making

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone

Small, Number, River

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.
Kiichi Miyazawa

Work, Live, American

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
John Millington Synge

Give, Her, Lord

They may be a little more high brow than we are.
David Talbot

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Franz Grillparzer

Nature, Woman, Around

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'
Ken Follet

Great, She, High

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck

Life, Living, Dead

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
Frederick Leboyer

Eyes, Tragic, Closed

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.
Louis Auchincloss

Rock, Husband, Her

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.
George Cooper

Smile, Beautiful, Sea

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