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 | ""Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain
in its azure hue." | |
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Thomas Campbell
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| "?Tisn?t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It?s just
It. Some women?ll stay in a man?s memory if they once walked down a
street." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "A thing of beauty is a job forever." | |
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Milton Berle
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| "A truth that?s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can
invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And
when this we rightly know, Thro? the World we safely go, Joy and woe are
woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine." | |
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William Blake
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| "A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better
they be." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Age is a high price to pay for maturity." | |
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Tom Stoppard
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| "All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only
pleases the sight, But does not captivate the affections." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more." | |
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The Bible
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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
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| "Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can
they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for
cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and
certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and
manufactures." | |
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Josiah Wedgwood
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| "Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one
cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the
whole." | |
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Leon Battista Alberti
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| "Beauty and folly are old companions." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what
it means can never be said." | |
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George Santayana
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| "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued." | |
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Jean Rostand
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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?" | |
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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." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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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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Edward Gibbon
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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
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| "Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer
delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right." | |
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Donald Culross Peattie
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| "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." | |
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Proverb
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| "Beauty is not caused. It is." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and
beholder." | |
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Zimmermann
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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
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| "Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned
people." | |
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Richard Armour
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| "Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor
or have not any sense." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
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| "Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." | |
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Charles Reade
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| "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it
takes away." | |
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George B. MéRé
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| "Beauty is the promise of happiness." | |
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Marie Stendhal
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| "Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers
The dust from which it came." | |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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| "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably
excites the sensitive soul to tears." | |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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| "Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break." | |
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Sara Teasdale
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| "BEAUTY, n. That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies
a husband." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Cleopatra"s nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world
would have been changed." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the
golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of
Nod." | |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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| "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be
beaten," | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person." | |
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Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil
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| "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be
received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not
constitute a sin of some kind." | |
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Robertson Davies
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| "Handsome is that handsome does." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from
star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires,-- As old Time makes
these decay, So his flames must waste away." | |
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Thomas Carew
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| "He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for
bread." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants." | |
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A. Whitney Brown
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| "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be
explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by
someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled
its purpose." | |
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Charlie Chaplin
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| "I heard the old, old men say "All that"s beautiful drifts away Like
the waters."" | |
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William Butler Yeats
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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." | |
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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?" | |
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Jean Kerr
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| "If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and
you"ll forget them all." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a
library." | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "If you can"t beat them, arrange to have them beaten." | |
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George Denis Carlin
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| "If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best
thing God invents." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "In a just cause the weak o"ercome the strong." | |
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Sophocles
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| "In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen in
snow." | |
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John Gay
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| "In every man"s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the
vibrations of beauty." | |
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Christopher Darlington Morley
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| "It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I
have to beat somebody." | |
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Richard Milhouse Nixon
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| "It"s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don"t need to
have anything else, and if you don"t have it, it doesn"t much matter what
else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have
charm for one. But some have charm for none." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is
a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. This is an accident
of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food
packages with the ingredients clearly labeled." | |
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Helen Hudson
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| "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." | |
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John Donne
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| "Muhammad said, "That person will not enter Paradise who hath one
atom of pride in his heart." And a man present said, "Verily, a man is
fond of having good clothes, and good shoes." Muhammad said, "God is
Beauty and delighteth in the beautiful; but pride is holding man in
contempt."" | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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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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Kotomichi
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| "My only books Were woman"s looks,? And folly "s all they "ve taught
me." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is
always something to make you wonder, in the shape of a leaf, the trembling
of a tree." | |
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Dr. Albert Schweitzer
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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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James Langston Hughes
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| "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before
sunrise." | |
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Dr. George Washington Carver
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| "Nothing"s beautiful from every point of view." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the Beauty of a
thousand stars." | |
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Christopher Marlowe
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| "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach." | |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light from within." | |
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Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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| "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle when the sun is
out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within." | |
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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| "Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of
reference." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But
beautiful women don"t need to know about men. It"s the men who have to
know about beautiful women." | |
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Katharine Hepburn
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| "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." | |
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Unknown
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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." | |
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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| "Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most
useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the
intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and
beauty, is intuition." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "She got her good looks from her father - he"s a plastic
surgeon." | |
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Groucho Marx
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| "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly
into the past. In 1940, St. Mary"s refused to allow Fitzgerald to be
buried in the Catholic cemetery because, "He had not performed his Easter
duty and his writings were undesirable." Fitzgerald was buried at
Rockville Union Cemetery until 1975, when the authorities at St. Mary"s
had a change of heart." | |
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre
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| "Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty -
they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." | |
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Martin Buxbaum
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| "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of
anguish, cutting the heart asunder." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if
false, that it lessens." | |
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Greville
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| "The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no
second spring." | |
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Ambrose Philips
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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
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| "The perception of beauty is a moral test." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "The problem with beauty is that it"s like being born rich and
getting poorer." | |
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Joan Collins
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| "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we
are permitted to remain children all our lives." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one"s
own ? even more, one"s own, for that has been put in our care and we are
responsible for its well-being." | |
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Katherine Anne Porter
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| "The world"s crazy, when it comes to beauty." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of
seeking happiness." | |
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Pierre Charles Baudelaire
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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
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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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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the
wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." | |
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Lady Marguerite Blessington
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| "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
proportion." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in
beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart." | |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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| "Two translations: For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in
our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are
lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without
unmanliness." | |
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Thucydides
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| "What is beautiful is good, And who is good will soon be
beautiful." | |
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Sappho
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| "When a woman isn"t beautiful, people always say:- You have lovely
eyes, you have lovely hair." | |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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| "When all candles bee out, all cats be gray." | |
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John Heywood
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| "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only
think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." | |
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Buckminster Fuller
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| "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only
think of how to solve the problem. But when I am finished, if the solution
is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." | |
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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| "When the candles are out all women are fair." | |
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Plutarch
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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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Aldous Huxley
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| "Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our
inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage ? in every
thought and deed." | |
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Russell M. Nelson
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| "Won?t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see
you." | |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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| "Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence
returning, to regain Love once possess"d." | |
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John Milton
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