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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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. – Jeanne Moreau

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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. – Gene Tierney

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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it. – H. R. Giger

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I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally Im really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. – Halle Berry

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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. – George Washington Carver

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There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. – Elizabeth Lawrence

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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldnt listen to other people, that they couldnt hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize. – Warren Farrell

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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. – Max Planck

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