Beauty quotes
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"The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty."
"Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”"
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision."
"The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings."
"If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'"
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
"Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives."
"Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?"
"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
"What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
"It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty."
"He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also."
"No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
"We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty."
"I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty."
