“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”
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“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.”
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
“Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.”
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”
“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”
“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.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.”
“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”
“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.”
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!”
“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”
“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”
“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.”
“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”
“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”