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Beauty

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. – Socrates

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. – Henry Rollins

The perception of beauty is a moral test. – Henry David Thoreau

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. – Hunter S. Thompson

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! – Henry David Thoreau

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. – Voltaire

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. – Deepak Chopra

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. – Marcus Aurelius

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. – Friedrich Schiller

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. – Edgar Allan Poe

I am a thing of beauty. – Frank Sinatra

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. – Jacqueline Bisset

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. – Louisa May Alcott

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. – Paulo Coelho

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty. – John Wooden

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? – Lily Tomlin

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. – Aldous Huxley