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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

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I dont care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. – Emile Zola

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I dont need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman. – Courtney Love

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. James 2:8 – Bible

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Eureka! Ive got it. – Archimedes

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