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  • Mark Twain Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Brody Jenner Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Aristotle Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Blaise Pascal Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Somerset Maugham 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.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Paul Klee 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.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • William Shakespeare 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.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Bancroft 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.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Donald Culross Peattie Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres 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.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • John Keats Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • John Keats Beauty is truth, truth is all ye know on earth, and all Ye need to know.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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