Quotes with beauty

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  • Charles Baudelaire There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Edith Hamilton There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Anna Katharine Green There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
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  • Edmond de Goncourt There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Michael Cunningham There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
    Michael Cunningham
    American novelist and screenwriter (1952 - )
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  • Vera Brittain There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Lady Blessington There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Francis Bacon There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Anne Frank Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • William Wordsworth This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Thomas Wolfe This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • André Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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