A beautiful thing is never perfect.
Egyptian (on beauty)
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Greek Proverb
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Beauty is only skin deep.
Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
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Butterflies come to pretty flowers.
Korean (on beauty)
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Do not dissect a rainbow. In other words, do not destroy a beautiful phenomenon by overanalyzing it.
Denise LaFrance, artist, 1964 – now.
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Don’t gild the lily.
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Everything is lovely when the geese honk high.
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If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away
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Music has charms to soothe a savage beast.
William Congreve (1670-1729)
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Pleasing ware is half sold.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
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Poetry moves heaven and earth.
Japanese (on art and creativity)
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Pretty is as pretty does.
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See life through an artist’s eye.
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Stop and smell the roses.
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The eyes are the windows of the soul.
Thomas Phaer (c.1510-1560)
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The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.
Danish (on life and living)
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The world is the traveler’s inn.
Afghan (on journeys)
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself.
Laetitia Casta
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
Anne Bront
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L’Enclos
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There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect
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imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.
Steve Maraboli
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The beautiful is always bizarre.
Charles Baudelaire
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There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
Cynthia Hand
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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
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the whole of time.
Albert Camus
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
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revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
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Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.
Gabriela Mistral,Desolacon
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Judge nothing by the appearance. The more beautiful the serpent, the more fatal its sting.
William Scott Downey
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.
Mike Dolan
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There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.
Mandy Hale
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People are more than just the way they look.
Madeleine L’Engle
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
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Beauty lies in the specific looks of a person, rather than the object, because different people feel beauty in differnt things.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas ?
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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
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Beauty seen is never lost, God’s colors all are fast.
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When a woman isn’t beautiful, people tell her : You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Beauty is not real. Beauty only exists in perception.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
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Beauty Parlor: A place where women curl up and dye.
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The beauty of male has not yet been portrayed by the only one who can do so-the female.
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By plucking her petals, You do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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She was a beauty in her youth a fact which she alone remembers.
