Beauty Quotes - Page 36

• All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Use, Posse, Fees

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.448

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• I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

  Izaak Walton

  Beautiful, Pleasure, Solomon

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.103

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• Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

  Rumi

  Son, Heaven, Treasure

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

  Duke Ellington

  Dolls, Satin

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• Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

  Homer

  Faces, Enchanting, Dear

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.379

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• Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Justice, Three

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.84, Routledge

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• I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

  Henri Rousseau

  Practice, Always Believe

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• The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Matter, Subjective

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• It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.

  Herbert Spencer

  Perfection, May, Causes

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• Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

  Alan Seeger

  Sweet, Light, Sea

  Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

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• Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Flower, Soul

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• Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

  Theocritus

  Ivory, Evil, Settings

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• Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Be Kind, Charm, Should

  "To Myra". line 21,

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

  Eliphas Levi

  Passing, Fugitive, Eternal

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• Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon - all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Education, Stress, Flower

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.94

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• Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

  Rachel Carson

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Silent Spring ch. 8 (1962)

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• The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Girl, Sweet, Voice

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• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Change, Work, Thinking

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Men, Cities

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Cutting, Men, Pollution Control

  "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson". Book by Lyndon B. Johnson, book 1, p. 161-62, 1965.

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• In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

  Luis Barragan

  Beautiful, Garden, Design

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Stars, Night, Blue

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Dark

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.517, Library of America

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• I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Nature, Morning

  John Muir, Richard Kauffman (1964). “Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada”

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• I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

  Jewel

  Sexy, Smart, Thinking

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