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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford
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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
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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...
John Keats
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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.
Charles Baudelaire
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Albert Camus
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
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Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table
Comte de Lautréamont
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Aldous Huxley
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Khalil Gibran
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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
Blaise Pascal
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Eugène Ionesco
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon
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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.
Paul Klee
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
William Shakespeare
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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.
Georges Bataille
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Kin Hubbard
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Stendhal
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
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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.
Albert Camus
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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Doug Horton
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
Plato
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
E. M. Forster
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Beauty rests on necessities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
André Breton
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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
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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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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Vernon Howard
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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come
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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.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
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Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Christopher Morley
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.
Dante Alighieri
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How goodness heightens beauty!
Hannah More
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde
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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
Augustine of Hippo
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
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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?
Jean Kerr
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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.
George Eliot
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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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.
James Allen
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Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John Ruskin
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
Arthur Rimbaud
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle
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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Walter Raleigh
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
John Ruskin
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
Michel de Montaigne
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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Karl Kraus
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
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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.
Northrop Frye
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