“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
— Christopher Morley
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“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.”
— Christopher Marlowe
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“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”
— Pope Paul VI
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“I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.”
— Renee Vivien
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“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
— Petrarch
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“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
— Jane Austen
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“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
— Godfrey Harold Hardy
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“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
— Robert Browning
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“Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.”
— Imelda Marcos
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