Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of …
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.