Beauty

(63 votes)   That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos
1620-1705, French Courtesan

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(62 votes)   A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(62 votes)   Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Henri B. Stendhal
1783-1842, French Writer

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(62 votes)   Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Edward A. Navajo

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(60 votes)   A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(58 votes)   Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Robert Nathan
1894-1985, American Novelist

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(58 votes)   Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Roy Thompson
1894-1977, British Press Lord

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(58 votes)   Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(58 votes)   I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(58 votes)   Very little bothers me more than seeing or hearing something so astoundingly beautiful that I am unable to put it into words.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(56 votes)   Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892, American Poet, Reformer, Author

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(56 votes)   The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(55 votes)   Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(55 votes)   No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Annie Dillard
1945-, American Author, Poet

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