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| She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone. |
| Aristotle |
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| The beautiful eyes of my cash-box. |
| Moliere |
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| The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. |
| Herman Melville |
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| The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. |
| D.H. Lawrence |
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| The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. |
| Aristotle |
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| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart |
| Helen Keller |
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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. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. |
| George Santayana |
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| There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. |
| Joseph Addison |
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| There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. 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. |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. |
| John Erskine |
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