Quotes with beauty

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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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  • 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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  • Albert Einstein Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Candice Bergen People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Aristotle Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bobbi Brown Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Andrea Dworkin Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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