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    It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief
    could be assuaged by baldness.
    [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito
    maeror levaretur.]

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Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the
gold
Used to hang and brush their read more

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the
gold
Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

by Robert Browning Found in: Hair Quotes,
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

by Martin Luther Found in: Hair Quotes,
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And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he is read more

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother
is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way
in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with
sorrow to the grave.

by Bible Found in: Hair Quotes,
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The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
righteousness.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of
righteousness.

by Bible Found in: Hair Quotes,
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.

An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.

by Abraham Cowley Found in: Hair Quotes,
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

by Irish Proverb Found in: Hair Quotes,
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And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.

And though it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pulled out.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Hair Quotes, Trout Quotes,
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The little wind that hardly shook
The silver of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about read more

The little wind that hardly shook
The silver of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--
A mystery of mysteries.
So he must often pause, and stoop,
An all the wanton ringlets loop
Behind her dainty ear--emprise
Of slow event and many sighs.

by William Dean Howells Found in: Hair Quotes,
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels
All women in the magic of her locks;
And when she winds them round a young man's neck,
She will not ever set him free again.

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