To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
Beauty is the flower of virtue.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
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