Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of t

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own souls doing. – Marie Carmichael Stopes

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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. – Leon Battista Alberti

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Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East – I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone. – Mstislav Rostropovich

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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. – Julia Margaret Cameron

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. – Aristotle

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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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