"Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!"
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"Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life."
"What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence."
"Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?"
"I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant."
"Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces."
"Scratching could not make it worse, an't were such a face as yours were."
"For by his face straight shall you know his heart."
"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
"All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are."
"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
"A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face."
"The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known."
"Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it."
"So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories."
"What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it."
"Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of"
""Welcome to the Amity compound," Johanna's eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. "Let us take care of you.""
"He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod."
"You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are"