#charms

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. ↗

— Washington Irving

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There are charms made only for distant admiration. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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And all the charms of face or voice Which I in others see, Are but the recollected choice Of what I feel for thee. ↗

— John Clare

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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

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