"A blush is the sign which Nature hangs……" — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell."
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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37 Quotes by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we…
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Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
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Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back…
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
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When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm…
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he…
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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More Blush Quotes
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A letter does not blush.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
— Charles Darwin
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
— William Shakespeare
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
— Charles Darwin
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
— Charles Darwin
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the…
— Mary McCarthy
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
— George Herbert
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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush…
— John Keats
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