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• Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

  John Cotton

  Age, Relation, Rarity

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• There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Littles, Merit

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

  John Constable

  Beautiful, Attitude, Light

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

  Rachel Carson

  Strength, Nature, Don't Give Up

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Catholic, Wicked

  "Confessions" by Saint Augustine, Book XV, (22), (c. 397).

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• To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Truth, Artist

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.71, A&C Black

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love Is, Essence, Inward

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

  Robert Breault

  Rose, Doe, Might

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• Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

  Vernon Howard

  Skins, Poor, Assets

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• I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beautiful, Makeup, Your Beautiful

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• Things are beautiful if you love them.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Beautiful, Art

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”

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• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  H. R. Giger

  Hope, Looks, Kind

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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Memorable, Weakness

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Confidence, Sexy

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• Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Simple, Smell, Rose

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Love, Beautiful, Fashion

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beautiful, Ideas, Perfection

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• Love is a great beautifier.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Life, Boyfriend

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters”, p.231, e-artnow

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  Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beautiful, Makeup, Red Lipstick

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Morning, Flower

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

  Fay Weldon

  Sisterhood, Giving, Firsts

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• Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

  Douglas Horton

  Variables, Imperfect, Constant

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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  Edmund Burke

  Promise

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• Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

  David Hume

  Positive, Philosophical, Carpe Diem

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