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“The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.”

Ifs Beauty Increase Examination Criteria True Beauty

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.”

Beauty Influence Increase Add Contrast Diminish Splendor Attractiveness

Book:pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty

Source: pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”

Seems Beauty Appreciate Increase Appreciation Redemption Diminish Physical Beauty Beauty Is Skin Deep

Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

Love Life Stills Dream Joy Sleep Beauty Sweet Healthy Quiet Increase Breathing Nothingness Loveliness Sweet Dreams Endymion

Author:John Keats

“The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.”

“Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.”

Beauty Increase Modesty

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.”

Art Reason Beauty Creatures Increase Fancy Examination Criteria True Beauty

Author:George Grenville

“Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.”

Beauty Opposites Increase Simplicity Former Variety Latter Diminish Grandeur

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.”

Men Beauty Behavior Increase Sticks Burning Flames Decline Virtuous Aggravation

Author:Sakya Pandita