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Beauties Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
More Beauties Quotes
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming… — Daniel Boone
- I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age… — Julie Burchill
- It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to… — Jimmy Carter
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of… — Thomas Jefferson
- One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
- Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties — William Shakespeare
- Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste… — Robert Greene
- Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
- In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the… — John Owen
- To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the… — Nhat Hanh
- This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create… — Rajneesh