Beauties Quotes - 2

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Alexander Pope
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Helen, did Homer never see Thy beauties, yet could write of thee?

Ben Jonson

— The Underwood,'An Ode' (published1640).

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Heaven above is softer blueEarth around is sweeter green;Something lives in every hueChristless eyes have never seenBirds with gladder songs o'erflowFlowers with deeper beauties shine. Since I know, as now I know, I am His, and He is mine.


— "Loved with Everlasting Love," Baptist Hymn Book (Pasalms and & Hymns Trust, London, 1962)

Tags: Heaven, above, softer, sweeter, lives, eyes, never, gladder, songs

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I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

john stossel

— The Oregonian, 26 October 1994

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For the mere purpose of entertainment and the excitement of wonder, a display of brilliant electric experiments, even when performed in the most promiscuous and confused order, never fail to afford ample gratification to the curiosity. The studious observer, however, whose business is to inquire into the true beauties of the science, requires the most judicious arrangement of the phenomena that can possibly be devised, in order to facilitate his acquaintance with them, and with the laws by which they are displayed and associated with each other.

william sturgeon

— William Sturgeon (1842). Lectures on electricity. London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. p. 123-124. 

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You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise?

henry wotton

— On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, stanza 1 (1624). In some versions "moon" replaces "sun". This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books", for example.

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We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.

rutherford b. hayes

— Letter to Sophia Birchard Hayes (10 July 1862).

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Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears: Yet, slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs: List to the heavy part the music bears, Woe weeps out her division, when she sings. Droop herbs, and flowers, Fall grief in showers, Our beauties are not ours; O, I could still, Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is now, a withered daffodil.

Ben Jonson

— Cynthia's Revels (1600), Act I, scene i.

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It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

— LXX, To the Immortal Memory of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison, lines 65-74.

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Then, if when I have lov’d my round, Thou prov’st the pleasant she, With spoils of meaner beauties crown’d I laden will return to thee, Ev’n sated with variety.

Richard Lovelace

— The Scrutiny, st. 4.

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So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

james thomson

— James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,346.

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If we approach Bharata Natyam with humility, learn it with dedication and practice it with devotion to God, sringara which brings out the great beauties of this dance can be portrayed with all the purity of the spirit.


— In "T Balasaraswati On Bharatanatyam"

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Heaven gave him all at once; then snatched away, ere mortals all his beauties could survey. Just like the flower that buds and withers in a day.

john dryden

— John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas.

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Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love .


— Idyll 6, line 19; translation by Richard Polwhele, from The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtæus (1810) p. 36.

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.


— Sec. 211

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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple


— "Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)

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beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

— 1714  The Rape of the Lock, canto 5, l.33-4.

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Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

Richard Hooker

— 1594  Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

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Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.

neville cardus

— Of Rachmaninoff's playing; Manchester Guardian (1939)

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I won't say another word about the beauties of the city and its situation, which have been described and praised often. As they say here, " Vedi Napoli e poi muori! See Naples and die !" One can't blame the Neapolitan for never wanting to leave his city, nor its poets singing its praises in lofty hyperboles: it would be wonderful even if a few more Vesuviuses were to rise in the neighbourhood.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, journal entry (3 March 1787), published in Italian Journey [1786 - 1788]; as translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (1962)

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