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Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates beyon
Jacqueline Bisset Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Charlie Chaplin Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for being:Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!I never sought to ask, I never knew:But, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you
Kahlil Gibran Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Karl Joseph, Prince de Ligne Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.
Plato Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
Oscar Wilde Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to be
Sloan Wilson And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questi
Peter Nivio Zarlenga Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
Plato Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not [color] but the structure that constitutes its essence.
John Donne Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Bertrand Russell Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Oscar Wilde Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to be
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates beyon
John F. Kennedy I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome
SHAKS.: _Venus and A.,_ Line 1019. For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act ii., Sc. 1. A beast, that wants discourse of reason. SHAKS.; _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2. My beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
John F. Kennedy I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
John Keats 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
KEATS: _Ode on a Grecian Urn._ Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Elie Wiesel There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
Lao Tzu When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Chinese Proverb If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Phyllis Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Thomas Jefferson The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
Christian Nestell The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Saint Augustine Love is the beauty of the soul.
John Owen Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
Turkish Proverb A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Roosevelt, Eleanor The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Joseph Addison There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
Demophilus The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct.
D. H. Lawrence The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
John Keats What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 3. Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
Logan P. Smith What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Alighieri Dante Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Barbara Colorose The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Benjamin Franklin If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii., Line 21. Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?--a world without a sun.
Anon. Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.
David Hockney The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Joan Collins The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Francis Bacon There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Vincent McNabb Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Unknown True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.
Rune Leknes Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.
Sara Teasdale Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Ralph Waldo Emerson As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Rose Elizabeth Bird Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
Robin Quivers It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.
Karl Joseph, Prince de Ligne Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.
Dylan Thomas Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty i
"Love built as beauty, soon as beauty, dies." -- John Donne
"Beauty is transitory. Beauty survives." - Spock and Kirk.
"Beauty is transitory." - Spock "Beauty survives." - Kirk
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" Keats
"Beauty is transitory." "Beauty survives." - Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Beauty survives.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
As we grow old???the beauty steals inward.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Beauty fades; dumb is forever.
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
Beauty holds more worth than gold.
If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.
The pain passes. The beauty remains.
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
Squint when you approach me, lest you be blinded by my beauty.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man???”a world without a sun.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
"Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold,
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

 

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