“A pleasant-smiling cheek, a speaking eye,
A brow for love to banquet royally.”
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Hero and Leander (published 1598)
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“So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.”
The What d' ye call it (1715). Comparable to: "The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a 'quart d'heure de Rabelais,'—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy", Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13
We Wear The Mask, in the 1913 collection of his work, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Context: We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
"To Juan at the Winter Solstice," lines 37–42, from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
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"To Juan at the Winter Solstice" from Poems 1938-1945 (1946).
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“I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.”
Source: The Lincoln Lawyer
The Month of June.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)