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Letter "T" » temperament
«No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.»
«There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.»
Author: Henry Van Dyke
(Essayist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Charm
| Keywords:
charm, cheerful, temperament, temperaments
«Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
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Style
| Keywords:
hallmark, stamped, temperament
«She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
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Beauty
| Keywords:
indefinable, more or less, temperament
«I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
| About:
God,
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
anonymity, Bach, composing, in due time, suited, temperament
«Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Freedom,
Temperament
| Keywords:
climate, extent, mood, temperament
«Music inflames temperament.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
inflame, inflamed, inflames, temperament, temperaments
«Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.»
«Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinct, fashioned, for instance, instance, nowadays, old fashioned, old hand, provincialism, sunset, sunsets, talks, temperament
«Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Temperament
| Keywords:
exquisitely, impressions, requisite, temperament, The Critic
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