Best beauty & strikes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers

“Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.”

Cities Beauty Youth Strikes Idealism Beaten

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.”

Ifs Persons Ends Seems Realizing Walks Beauty Share Photograph Patterns Blow Ugly Strikes Cracks Sidewalk Geometric

Author:Matthew Fox

“All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.”

People Country Would Be Beauty Land Strikes Grass Soil Reasonable Handsome Cattle Fertile Pastures

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

May Soul Eye Winning Beauty Sight Strikes Vain Merit Charm Pretty Eyes

Author:Alexander Pope

“I sacrifice to the God of Beauty — the impulse to beauty in nature. Here are flowers. Here is wine spilled on the floor. I will burn incense & myrhh. I will kneel & strike my breast & touch the dust with my forehead. I will I will! Only do not forsake me, Oh God of beauty.”

Beauty Strikes Dust Breasts Foreheads Forsake

Author:Theodore Dreiser

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