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“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.”

“He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.”

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Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.”

Mind Shows Turns Beauty Bears Lovers Green Glasses Rage Jealousy

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Beauty is the lover's gift.”

Author:William Congreve

“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”

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Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak

“The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.”

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Book:My Life (Revised and Updated)

Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)

“Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.””

Beautiful Beauty Lovers Beautiful You

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.”

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Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand

“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”

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Book:Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover

Source: Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover

“Your lips are the beauty that I want to kiss.”

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Author:Anthony T. Hincks