Beauty Quotes - Page 31

• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

  Ovid

  Wine, Dark, Judgement

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• A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Depressing, Years

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Nature, Flower

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• It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

  Epictetus

  Fitness, Philosophical, Heart

  "Society-89: The Essentials". Book by Jack Minnelpin (p. 28), August 1, 2006.

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• It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Love You, Wisest

  Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1241, Oxford University Press

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• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

  George Santayana

  Environment, Harmony, Divine

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, All Things

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

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• My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

  Pindar

  Splendor, Strive, Let Me

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Perception, Mind, Doe

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Firsts, Goodness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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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

  Perfection, May, Causes

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• I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

  Izaak Walton

  Beautiful, Pleasure, Solomon

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.103

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• It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

  George Santayana

  Past, Comfort, Favour

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.118, MIT Press

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• Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

  Rumi

  Son, Heaven, Treasure

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

  Homer

  Faces, Enchanting, Dear

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.379

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• Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Be Kind, Charm, Should

  "To Myra". line 21,

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• To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

  John Dryden

  Hands, Masters, Shows

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.207

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• Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Justice, Three

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.84, Routledge

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• Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Flower, Soul

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• A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

  Duke Ellington

  Dolls, Satin

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• At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

  Unknown

  I Love You, Thanksgiving, Love You

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• The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Matter, Subjective

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• I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

  Henri Rousseau

  Practice, Always Believe

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• Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

  Theocritus

  Ivory, Evil, Settings

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

  Eliphas Levi

  Passing, Fugitive, Eternal

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