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• Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

  David Hume

  Mind, Quality, Different

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

  Fergie

  Women, Focus, Body

  "It's a Fergie World". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 31, 2008.

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• The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

  Katherine Center

  Imperfection, Human Condition, Humans

  Katherine Center (2009). “Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel”, p.226, Ballantine Books

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• Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Waste, Delightful, Enjoyed

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• 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Joints, Lips

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) (1751). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.101

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• The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Beautiful, World, Objects

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

  George Eliot

  Lovely, Lovely Woman, Music Is

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Husband, Power, Wife

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

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• Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Profitable

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

  John Green

  Cereal, Color, People

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.37, A&C Black

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• Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

  Candice Bergen

  Giving, Scary, Stubborn

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• There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.

  Abraham Kuyper

  God, Christian, Flower

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• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

  Marianne Moore

  Dust, Everlasting

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

  Theodore Parker

  Kings, Cat, Eye

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• Beauty is a possession not our own.

  Bion of Smyrna

  Possession

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• What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

  Neil Young

  Air, Shining, Grace

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• I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

  Kate Hudson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Confidence

  Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Hate, Tired, People

  "‘Precious’ Star Gabourey Sidibe: My First Diet Started At Age Six". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

  Marlene Dietrich

  Beautiful, Beautiful You, Lovers

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Laughter, Philosophy

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.93, Random House

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• Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

  Joanne Woodward

  Cute Love, Family, Marriage

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• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fall, Carpe Diem, Sensitive Person

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.506, Broadview Press

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• What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Dawn

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Courage, Pain, Grief

  "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

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