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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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Tresses, that wear
Jewels, but to declare
How much themselves more precious are.

Tresses, that wear
Jewels, but to declare
How much themselves more precious are.

by Richard Crashaw 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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When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
men were greatly ashamed: and the read more

When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the
men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho
until your beards be grown, and then return.

by Bible 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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But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

by Bible Found in: Hair Quotes,
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Found in: Hair Quotes,
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But she is vanish'd to her shady home
Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
Weeps in a read more

But she is vanish'd to her shady home
Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.

by Thomas Hood Found in: Hair Quotes,
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

by Charles Lamb Found in: Hair 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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