 Flowers cannot smile; this is a charm that even they cannot claim. It is the prerogative of man; it is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy — these three. It is a light in the windows of the face, by which the heart signifies it is...  The New England Farmer - Page 281870Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 452 pages
...may flash reflected light, but what is a diamond-flash compared with an eye- flash ora mirth-flash 1 A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, but a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both,... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.) - 1857 - 496 pages
...signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at home and waiting. A face that cannot unite, is like a bud that cannot blossom and dries up on...Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and a smile is twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. But all smiles arc not alike.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...the face, by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at home and waiting. A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom and dries up on the stalk. Laughter is clay, and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at home and waiting. A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot...the twilight that hovers gently between both, and more bewitching than either. — Beecher. — The smiles which we assume, when we go into public, are... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...face, by which the h«irt signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at home and waiting. A face that cannot , smile is like a bud that cannot...blossom, and dries up on the stalk. Laughter is day, »nd | sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight | that hovers gently between both, more bewitching... | |
 | 1873 - 452 pages
...article, as we have not spoken to him since the meeting of the Society. — Masonic Review, Cincinnati. NOTHING on earth can smile but human beings. Gems...the twilight that hovers gently between both, and more bewitching than either. 28 CHARITY LODGE. — WORTHY OF IMITATION, ETC. INSTALLATION :-CHARITY... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Love poetry - 1873 - 448 pages
...human beings. Gems may flash reflected light ; but what is a diamond flash compared with an eye flash ? A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and dries upon the stalk. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers between... | |
 | 1874 - 692 pages
...may flash reflected light, but what is a diamond flash compared with an eye flash and a mirth flash ? A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and dries up on the stalk. Laughter IB day, and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers geatlj /between both, and is... | |
 | United States - 1877 - 994 pages
...may flash reflected light, but what is a diamond flash compared with an eye flash and mirth flash ? A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and dries up on tie stalk. Laughter is day and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between... | |
 | - 1881 - 854 pages
...the face, by which the heart signifies to father, husband, and friend that it is at homo and waiting. A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot...between both, and is more bewitching than either. THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR. MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1881. PERSECUTION COMES FROM THE WICKED.... | |
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