"Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day."
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"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark."
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"Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use."
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"A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]"
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"I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem. Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]"
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"A pleasing face is no small advantage."
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"It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty."
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"The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition."
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"From out of pain, beauty."
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"An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling."
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"Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty."
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"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind."
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"Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism."
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"Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men."
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"A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed."
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"Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still."
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"Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty."
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"It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful."
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"The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators."
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"Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness."
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