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Beauty Quotes by John Ruskin
- I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life,…
- Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our…
- Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
- The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
- If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,…
- Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
- Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
- Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
- Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed…
- You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
- Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
More Beauty Quotes
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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
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- 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
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- 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