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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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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 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,
lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
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 only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
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Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
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Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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