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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
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Joseph Addison(1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman) |
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| There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
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Joseph Addison(1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman) |
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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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James Allen(1864-1912, British essayist, author, As A Man Thinketh) |
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| Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, The Devil's Dictionary) |
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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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Jean Anouilh(1910-1987, French playwright) |
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| Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Jean Anouilh(1910-1987, French playwright) |
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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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Aristotle(BC 384-322, Greek philosopher) |
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| Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Aristotle(BC 384-322, Greek philosopher) |
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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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Mary Arnim(1866-1941, Australian-born British novelist) |
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| The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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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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George Bancroft(1800-1891, American historian) |
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| Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
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George Bancroft(1800-1891, American historian) |
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| I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
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Tyra Banks(1973-, American model) |
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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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Georges Bataille(1897-1962, French novelist, critic) |
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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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Charles Baudelaire(1821-1867, French poet) |
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| There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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Charles Baudelaire(1821-1867, French poet) |
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| It doesn't help your five-iron if you're pretty.
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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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Walter Benjamin(1982-1940, German critic, philosopher) |
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| I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
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Ingrid Bergman(1915-1982, Swedish-born American screen, stage actress) |
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| Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Al Bernstein |
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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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Halle Berry(1968-, American actress) |
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| We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.
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Jacqueline Bisset(1946-, American screen actor) |
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| Exuberance is beauty.
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William Blake(1757-1827, British poet, painter) |
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| There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Countess of Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner(1789-1849, Irish writer and socialite) |
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| Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism.
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John Christian Bovee(1820-1904, American author, lawyer) |
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| The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
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John Christian Bovee(1820-1904, American author, lawyer) |
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| There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
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| Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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Andre Breton(1989-1966, French surrealist) |
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| The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861, British poet) |
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| In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton(1803-1873, British novelist, poet) |
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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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Albert Camus(1913-1960, French existential writer) |
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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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Albert Camus(1913-1960, French existential writer) |
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| Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle(1801-1866, British diarist) |
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| All kinds of beauty don't inspire love; there is a kind that pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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Miguel De Cervantes(1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet) |
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| The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.
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Julia Child(1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality) |
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| Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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Confucius(BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher) |
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| Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
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Dante, Alighieri(1265-1321, Italian philosopher, poet) |
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| Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!
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Bessie Delaney |
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| Beauty is not caused. It is.
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Emily Dickinson(1830-1886, American poet) |
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| Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
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Marlene Dietrich(1904-1992, German-born American film actor) |
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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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Annie Dillard(1945-, American author, poet) |
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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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| It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the "dear deceit" of beauty.
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George Eliot(1819-1880, British novelist) |
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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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George Eliot(1819-1880, British novelist) |
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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