Quote by Samuel Johnson
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be ex

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. – Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as ones treasure will not win one anyones favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyones camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Beauty doesnt need ornaments. Softness cant bear the weight of ornaments. – Munshi Premchand

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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all mens souls. – James Russell Lowell

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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. Youve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe Ive got my Freud mixed up. Its just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. – Vera Farmiga

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The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. Thats my immortality. And I shouldnt try to mortgage theirs for my benefit. – Justin Cronin

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Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart. – Beverley Mitchell

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Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. – Joseph Addison

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Theres only one thing that can kill the movies, and thats education. – Will Rogers

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