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Letter "B" » Beauty
«Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.»
«Who has the gift to recognize beauty, will not live long»
«Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.»
«You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.»
«What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Beauty,
Goodness
| Keywords:
absurdities, suppose, utters
«When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.»
«We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.»
«Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies?and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:I would be consumed in that overwhelming existenceFor beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure.and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.»
«We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Beauty
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, extremes, related, related to, superfluous, to that
«What ills from beauty spring»
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