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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]
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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]
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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
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Beauty rests on necessities.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.
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There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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