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hue
«A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Character
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hue, its color, more or less
«We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.»
«A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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azure, colors, dews, evening, extremely, for the most part, fragrance, healthy, heavens, hue, rare, sentence, true color
«What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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allied, antiquity, hue, indigenous, modern times, nearest, partridge, partridges, products, rabbits, venerable
«But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake»
«Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.»
«Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.»
«Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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awry, cowards, currents, enterprises, hue, native, pale, pith, resolution, the pale