Beauty Quote by Lew Wallace

““It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.””

Lew Wallace

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“Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.”

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“They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.”

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I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury myself in a den of books. I want to saturate myself with the elements of which they are made, and breathe their atmosphere until I am of it. Not a bookworm, being which is to…

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“From her love, O, reader!--her mother-love, which, if thou wilt observe well, hath this unlikeness to any other love: tender to the object, it can be infinitely tyrannical to itself, and thence all its power of self-sacrifice. Not for restoration to health and fortune, not for any blessing of life, not for life itself,”

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“The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement, that the…

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“For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.”

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There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about…

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“Latin is an abomination!”

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What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

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“From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon. At last--ah, with what years of toil!--I stood in the perfect day, and beheld the principle of life, the element of religion, the link between the soul and God--Love!”

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“Father of all--God!--what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.”

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“The enemy of man is man, my brother.”

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