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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. – Edward F. Halifax

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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. – James Weldon Johnson

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We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. – Carre Otis

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! – Alexander Herzen

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