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Beauty Quotes and Quotations
 And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.  Beauty without expression tires. Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent. Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back. - Voltaire Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar. Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell. The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. Things are beautiful if you love them. We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends. Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour. The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Exuberance is beauty. The Nature of This Flower is to bloom. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. - Rumi Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. - Goethe The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. Things are beautiful if you love them. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. 
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