That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
“Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter of seconds,” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. — John Major Copy Share Image
I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat.,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
“Look at what you've done,' Sanguine said, shaking his head with mock severity. 'You have foiled out insidious little plot. You have… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could… — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more -… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
To take advantage of the last precious minutes, you've got to stay afield as late as the birds do, regardless of a… — Havilah Babcock Copy Share Image
There's a clock on the wall. Press your hand against the face and turn it very slightly to the. Left. There'll be… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day. — John Molson Copy Share Image
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil… — William James Copy Share Image
We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
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