Quotes with beauty-truths

Quotes 221 till 240 of 441.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bayard Taylor Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Barry Cornwall O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Christopher Marlowe O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sara Teasdale Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Bayard Taylor Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • André Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud One evening I sat Beauty on my knees -And I found her bitter -And I reviled her.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Erickson Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Jimmy Carter Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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