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Beauty Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a…
- Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
- True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
- The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time…
- What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
- As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
- Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
- To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
- How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell…
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
- As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
- Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may…
- It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no…
- Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
- It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable,…
- Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.…
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
- You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
- It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or…
- It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective…
- The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine