"Beauty is its own excuse." — John Greenleaf Whittier

"Beauty is its own excuse."

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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139 Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier has 139 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly…
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate…
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise,…
We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and…
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And…
God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay,…
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His…
God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over…
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare…
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt…
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
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… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — 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… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — 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

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