Beauty Quotes
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Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.
Alex Lemon
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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
Demades
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
Rumi
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Aristotle
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
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It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
Herbert Spencer
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Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
Homer
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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
William Goldman
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Plato
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
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I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.
Ayana Mathis
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
Emil Cioran
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True beauty consists of purity of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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True beauty is to behold and reflect the beauty of God.
Carolyn Mahaney
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From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.
Alex Shakar
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Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
Marilyn Monroe
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
Gerald Massey
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
Confucius
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To own beauty is the first lie of it.
Chris Campanioni
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I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.
Claude Monet
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The cave room faced south, and that night I looked out from its frame on the moonlit talus below and the pines beyond and thought that whether Indian or White one was fortunate indeed to live for a time in a world of such beauty.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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Of all the joys of life which may fairly come under the head of recreation there is nothing more great, more refreshing, more beneficial in the widest sense of the word, than a real love of the beauty of the world... to those who have some feeling that the natural world has beauty in it I would say, Cultivate this feeling and encourage it in every way you can. Consider the seasons, the joy of the spring, the splendour of the summer, the sunset colours of the autumn, the delicate and graceful bareness of winter trees, the beauty of snow, the beauty of light upon water, what the old Greek called the unnumbered smiling of the sea.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon