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Call for the
grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the
sun going to his rest.
-- Thomas De Quincey
1785-1859, British Author
Remember if
you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for
that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one
year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price
at all.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier,
Navigator, Writer
There are no
better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity,
modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of
spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures
of these graces in the very countenance.
-- John Ray
1627-1705, British Naturalist
Beauty is
power; a smile is its sword.
-- Charles Reade
1814-1884, British Novelist,
Dramatist
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One evening I
sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I
reviled her.
-- Arthur Rimbaud
1854-1891, French Poet
Let us live
for the beauty of our own reality.
-- Tim Robbins
1958-, American Actor,
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Writer
Beauty in art
is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
-- Jean Rostand
1894-1977, French Biologist,
Writer
Let the beauty
we love be what we do.
-- Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi
Mystic Poet
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