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Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. -- James Montgomery
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously. -- Marie de France
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn. -- John Milton
Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews. -- William C. Bryant
Time is the fairest and toughest judge. -- Edgar Quinet
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. -- Silius Italicus
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. -- Heraclitus
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Philip Stanhope
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. -- D. H. Lawrence
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings. -- David Ferrer
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. -- Edward Gibbon
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. -- Francis Beaumont
We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man. -- Annie Besant
They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things. -- Leonard Peltier
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment. -- Howard Baker
As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums. -- Kid Rock
Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that. -- Nick Clegg
The fairest harmony springs from discord. -- Heraclitus
Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart. -- Thomas Paine
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest. -- John Keats
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. -- Pericles
Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself -- Gail Carson Levine
Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards. -- Isaac Barrow
Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple -- Og Mandino
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. -- Louisa May Alcott
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind. -- Richard M. Weaver
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. -- William Browne
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings. -- Heraclitus
Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land? -- Wilhelm Grimm
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God. -- Martin Luther
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host. -- Aeschylus
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. -- Edward Gibbon
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. -- John Milton
The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule. -- Polybius
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Philip Stanhope
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. -- Philip Stanhope
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning. -- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences. -- Henry David Thoreau
The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth. -- George H. W. Bush
The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife. -- Heraclitus
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest. -- Samuel Richardson
For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die. -- Sappho
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. -- Hosea Ballou
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have. -- John Rawls
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat. -- John Milton
I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?" -- Alec Baldwin
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. -- William Blake
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. -- Henry David Thoreau
Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world. -- Charles Rangel
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations. -- Charles Lenox Remond
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. -- Francis Thompson
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Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in. -- Charles G. Dawes
Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast. -- Hesiod
A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods. -- William Wordsworth
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind. -- Edward Gibbon
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims. -- Charles Dickens
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land. -- Jean Ingelow
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms. -- John Milton
This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other. -- Patience Strong
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior -- Desiderius Erasmus
Find a woman who cares about nothing but loving, serving, honoring, and glorifying Jesus Christ, and you will see who truly is the 'fairest of them all.' -- Leslie Ludy
For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all. -- Polybius
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. -- Honore de Balzac
Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves. -- Sappho
By the margin of fair Zurich's waters Dwelt a youth, whose fond heart, night and day, For the fairest of fair Zurich's daughters In a dream of love melted away. -- Charles Dance
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine. -- Thomas Carlyle
O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces. -- James Gates Percival
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. -- Edmund Burke
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve. -- John Milton
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summÃ¨d lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more. -- Robert Southwell
When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision. -- Plato
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears. -- Walter Scott
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards. -- William Shakespeare
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. -- Martin Luther

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