Quotes with beautiful

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alain de Botton It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
    The Architecture of Happiness
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Bill Cosby It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut It was a thunderingly beautiful experience - voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • O. Henry It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Bethany Hamilton It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Forsyth It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Carl Bernstein John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Joy in looking and understanding is the most beautiful gift of nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Dhammapada Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • John Irving Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
    The World According To Garp (2012)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • James Allen Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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