Beauty Quotes - Page 32

• The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Tests

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

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• Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Sweet, Art, Flower

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• Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Sight, Crowds, Mercy

  Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

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• Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Shows, Seems

  'An Hymn in Honour of Beauty' l. 90

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• Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Owners, Wit

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

  Eliphas Levi

  Passing, Fugitive, Eternal

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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 been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

  Jewel

  Sexy, Smart, Thinking

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• Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

  Theocritus

  Ivory, Evil, Settings

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• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Change, Work, Thinking

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Men, Cities

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

  Rachel Carson

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Silent Spring ch. 8 (1962)

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• And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

  Aime Cesaire

  Revelations, Born Again, Ancestor

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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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• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Dark

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.517, Library of America

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• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

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• Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Falling In Love, Eye, Reality

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• The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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• Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

  Ovid

  Doors, Age, Use

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  Unknown

  I Love You, Thanksgiving, Love You

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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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• 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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• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Flattery, Gross, Objects

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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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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