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“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.”

World Made Stills Together Beautiful Used Father Stars Nature Race Half Beauty Morning Creation Fields Plant Envy Contact Dawn Dwelling Eden

Book:Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

Source: Gentle wilderness: the Sierra Nevada

“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.”

“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.”

Art Stills Reason Used Voice Beauty United States Too Much Havens Art Is Capacity Ears Hotel Stations Admiration Palaces Splendor Railway Magnificence Small Voice Railway Station

Book:The Bent Twig

Source: The Bent Twig

“I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.”

People Way Wells Used Turns Work Beauty Smart Attractive Being Smart Being Myself

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Beautiful Used Beauty Essentials Being Beautiful

Author:Aino Kallas

“I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.”

Knows Men Beautiful Form Used Rooms Beauty Every Man Beautiful Women Intoxication

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

Way Has Beens Used Race Beauty Drinking Alcohol All Time Strongest Testimony Alcoholics Wisest Liquor Unbroken

Book:Notes on a Cellar-Book

Source: Notes on a Cellar-Book

“When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.”

Believe Two Young Used Father Literature I Believe Felt Beauty Pursuit Prize Worthwhile Nobel

Author:Frederick Sanger

“Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.”

Used Beauty Subjects Ideals Genre Heroic Larger Than Life

Author:Isabel Bishop

“Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.”

Used Beauty Be Good Used To Be Looking Good Jennifer Beyonce

Author:Simon Cowell

“I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.”

Way Wells Doe Kids School Used Beauty High School Hanging Out Hallways

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.”

Art Stills Ideas Different Used Beauty Paper Mathematics Command Aesthetic Colleagues Papers Publish

Author:Antoni Zygmund