Beauty Quotes
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.
Arthur Davison Ficke
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Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail
Against her beauty? May she mix
With men and prosper! Who shall fix
Her pillars? Let her work prevail.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.
Honore de Balzac
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Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
Michelangelo
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I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It is full of beauty, romance and tradition, but also power, schemes and bribery. It's Italy in a nutshell, with all its incredible mixture of beauty and betrayal.
Cosima Spender
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Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
Charlotte Bronte
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
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He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretentions to beauty or even good looks, was something he had not expected. But falling in love, he had always understood, was unpredictable, and, as far as he was concerned, irrevocable.
Betty Neels
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
Issey Miyake
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
Eric Gill
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The thing about organic farming is that the produce will not look the same. Your tomato will not resemble the rich red one from the textbook, and that's the beauty of it.
R. Madhavan
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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Ernest Hemingway
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To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Emond
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Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able
Very soon not even to cry pretty
And so be delivered entirely from humanity
This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
Stevie Smith
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You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.
Anis Mojgani
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Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make wilderness not a battlefield but a revelation.
T. H. Watkins
