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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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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.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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