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To give pain
is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
-- Sir Richard Steele
1672-1729, British Dramatist,
Essayist, Editor
Beauty is the
promise of happiness.
-- Henri B. Stendhal
1783-1842, French Writer
You can take
no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at
sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
-- Marie Carmichael Stopes
1880-1958, British Scientist,
Pioneer of Birth Control
The difference
between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference
between telephone wires and the spider web.
-- Edwin Way Teale
1899-1980, American
Naturalist and Writer
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We know only
that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea,
because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so,
that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may
be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious
they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we
trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
-- St. Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spanish Saint,
Mystic
Beauty when
unadorned is adorned the most.
-- Roy Thompson
1894-1977, British Press Lord
It is amazing
how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
-- Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist,
Philosopher
Every beauty
which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles
more than anything else that celestial source from which we
all are come
-- Source Unknown
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