Lasting Quotes - Page 40

• Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Beauty, Female, Faces

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• Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Virtue

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• Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

  Edmund Spenser

  Wrath, Rage, Repentance

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• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  Helen Keller

  Ambition, Pride, Wind Blowing

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• The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

  William Shenstone

  Imagination, Perfection, Tree

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.137

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