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“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks & lilies for instance.”
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”
“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.”
“Beauty is the gift of God.”
“What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful.”
“Beauty is a short - lived reign.”
“What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.”
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.”
“It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.”
“Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.”
“If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.”
“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
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