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“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.”

Beautiful Time Waiting Common Painting Scene Succeed Draws Details Veils

Book:Thomas Cole

Source: Thomas Cole

“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.”

Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

“For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.”

Littles Beautiful Common Actresses Compliment Curves Unforgettable

Author:Eva Herzigova

“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.”

People Art Running Able Beautiful Common Appreciate Satisfied Ornaments Connoisseur Simply Beautiful

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.”

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.”

Knows Firsts Humans Light Beautiful Christ Common Generations Figures Divine All Things Shining Scripture Visible Epiphany

Author:Herman Melville

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.”

Would Be Today Beautiful Order Memories Poor Common Funeral Transformed Alas Corpses Counterparts Parlor Beautiful Memories

Book:The American Way of Death Revisited

Source: The American Way of Death Revisited

“I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.”

Hands Beautiful Girl Common Too Much Ambition Attractive Beautiful Things

Author:Wale

“The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.”

Mind Humans Beautiful Order Common Human Nature Miracle Patterns Conform Moderation Beautiful Life Eccentricity Ordinariness

Book:Selections from the Essays

Source: Selections from the Essays

“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.”

Two Beautiful Natural Common History Environment Conditions Ordinary Criticism Historical Extraordinary Suspects Really Great Maxims Axioms Improbable

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel